Description of problem: after upgrading from feedora 9 to 10, the system hangs after this error: mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: No such file or directory. Besides, the swap partition isn't mounted (unable to resume device (UUID=....) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible:always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
this is nearly always a broken initrd. What kind of disk controller is the root filesystem on?
SCSI controller- LSI 53C 1010 R 64-bit/66MHz
and the SCSI BIOS is Symbios SDMS version 4.0
Try booting to rescue mode, chrooting to the sysimage and running: mkinitrd -v -f --with=scsi_wait_scan /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64.img 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 (or substitute i686 for x86_64 if necessary) potentially a dupe of: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429937
Thanks. Everything is OK
New kernel 2.6.27.7-134.fc10 still has the same issue, with the same solution: mkinitrd -v -f --with=scsi_wait_scan /boot/initrd-2.6.27....
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 470628 ***