- Re: Fedora 13 installation, does not boot (Chris Rouch)
From: Chris Rouch chris.rouch@gmail.com On 17 July 2010 15:57, Vincent Onelli vonelli@optonline.net wrote:
Hello,
I installed f13 on Dell dimension 8300 (with two HD 120GB for windows end 320GB for Fedora) several time with 32 bit iso file downloaded from 3 different place bit torrent, the iso file to install on dvd, and another side 32 bit 3.1GB. ?The first one from bit torrent on reboot display error 17 cannot mount selected partition pressing enter shows the following line: ?Fedora (2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686.PAE pressing enter here goes right back to error 17. The second and the third on reboot the cursor moves to upper left corner the screen and stays there blinking forever. By the way on this machine f10,f11,f12 all work fine.
I appreciate very much if some body can help, else I will be forced to reinstall f12
You could try to edit the kernel line from the grub boot menu. Remove the rhgb and quiet options. This won't fix the problem, but it should show you what's happening before the hang.
It could be that your initramfs file is corrupt - it doesn't have references to the correct disks. If so, booting into rescue mode, chrooting to the real root and running dracut again might fix it. But that is just a guess.
On my system, with a separate boot partition I'd run:
dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
Regards,
Chris
First I wand to thank you for reply, I had send couple email before had no reply. your fix didn't work on my computer, but at least had some thing to try.
I used the rescue disk typed: chroot /mnt/sysimage then dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) and got the fallowing answer: find:'/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686/':no such file or directory find:'/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686/':no such file or directory find:'/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686/':no such file or directory find:'/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686//kernel/drivers':n find:'/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686/':no such file or directory find:'/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686/':no such file or directory
On Saturday, 17 July, 2010 @23:56 zulu, Vincent Onelli scribed:
I used the rescue disk typed: chroot /mnt/sysimage then dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) and got the fallowing answer: find:'/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686/':no such file or directory
Follow that same rescue procedure and after chroot, run # depmod -a
Then repeat the dracut command, i.e. # dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)