Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.6.25-1mnb - a standard install fails to boot

[Dick Gevers]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:16:30 +0200, Olivier Blin wrote about Re: [Cooker]
kernel-2.6.25-1mnb - a standard install fails to boot:

>Dick Gevers <dvgevers@xs4all.nl> writes:
>
>> When I do a normal install of the kernel-server with 'rpm -ivh', this
>> kernel fails to boot for me.
>>
>> I see a partial dmesg ending with:
>>
>> Loading piix module
>
>Is it loading any other modules before this one?

All the "Loading ... module" lines I see are:
ext3
ide-core
ide-disk
dock
scsi_mod
libata
ata_piix
ahci
piix
ide_generic


>What's the root= option on your bootloader command line?

root=UUID=75442396-c929-11d9-92e1-7d0870128c66

however, I also tried root=/dev/hda5 with the image created by rpm install,
but that did not work either.

>Though, in current cooker, we have switched to libata PATA modules,
>piix should not have been used. Maybe we'd need the kernel package to
>require a recent version of ldetect-lst.
>
>If you rebuild initrd for this kernel, does it fix the issue?

Yes, if I rebuild the image either with --preload ide-modules, or --preload
piix, or without any options, every image boots. Just not the one created
by the rpm script: I tried it again just now (removing the kernel and
installing again the same package) and I got the same errors.

Cheers,
=Dick Gevers=