Description of problem: I cannot boot the system after a fresh installation of Fedora Core 6 Test 2 on a HP Blade server via Firefox and ILO Java Console, because: could not find root filesystem. I find no way to copy the console output to ASCII text, therefore i attached the console output as PNG screenshot. My workaround to boot the system: 1. Change the Grub Kernel line from ... root=LABEL=/12 ... to ... root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 single 2. Edit /etc/fstab and change: #LABEL=/12 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 / ext3 defaults #LABEL=SW-cciss/c0d0p5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 swap swap defaults 0 0 reboot. Looks OK Blkid: [root@localhost ~]# blkid /dev/cciss/c0d0p1: LABEL="/12" UUID="49e2d117-0c2f-4a46-ba72-03307dd32931" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/cciss/c0d0p2: LABEL="/1" UUID="33fca6cb-629e-435d-b677-7c21d48ff8d6" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/cciss/c0d0p3: LABEL="/" UUID="d55bc382-2f61-4adf-9740-925457e2d199" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/cciss/c0d0p5: LABEL="SW-cciss/c0d0p5" TYPE="swap" /dev/cciss/c0d0p7: UUID="e60cd4d8-3909-4264-acfc-c47459c4c502" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/cciss/c0d0p8: UUID="24bd8402-3e2f-4f0b-9730-3e416f0804d6" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" root@localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.17-1.2517.fc6 #1 SMP Thu Aug 3 05:00:49 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Regards Herbert Straub
Created attachment 133813 [details] Console screenshot with the error message
Looks like a broken initrd. Peter, any ideas?
Yeah, cciss uses '!' at a very unfortunate place, and everything else in sysfs uses '!' to mean something else. I'll have to spend some time with a cciss card soon and fix this :/
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 196360 ***