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watermark
18th May 2005, 09:12 PM
When upgrading from fc3...

When booting into the gui install, after anacanda detects my ****z, all it will show is a white screen. The upgrade will run from text mode, however.

When it does upgrade via text mode, I get this info upon reboot:

root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type is 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1286_FC4 ro root=/dev/hda1 rhgb quiet
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1600, size=0x18e793]
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1286_FC4.img
[Linux-initrd @ 0x1df0a000, 0xd6000 bytes]

Uncompressing Linux...Ok, booting the kernel
audit(1116432117.215:0): initialized
agpgart: Unsupported ALi chipset (device id: 1672)
RAMDISK: ran out of compressed data
invalid compressed format (err=1)
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(3, 1)

Any help? Or do I just have to wait for official to get rid of my woes?
(the agpgart thing was there in fc3 too, it shouldnt matter)

magcomment
19th May 2005, 05:35 PM
You could try rebuilding your initrd. Bring up the system in rescue mode from install CD1, your root partition should be mounted at /mnt/sysimage. Get you real system to "/" by entering command "chroot /mnt/sysimage". You may also have to mount /boot, "mount /dev/hdxxx /boot".

Save your old initrd : "mv /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1286_FC4.img /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1286_FC4.img.bak"

Create initrd, "mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1286_FC4.img 2.6.11-1.1286_FC4"

Return to rescue shell: "exit"

reboot: "exit"