I have installed F12 final on an external firewire drive on my Apple Powerbook G4 12" machine (PPC architecture). Install went smoothly, but machine won't boot this installation, the only diagnostics is "No root device found Boot has failed, sleeping forever. " I believe this is due to a switch to dracut - F11 was using mkinitrd and things were working fine. Please let me know which diagnostics and tests I can run - F12 DVD in rescue mode find and mounts the firewire drive without problems.
Created attachment 369984 [details] dmesg output Right. Read up a bit more on the subject of dracut debugging, added 'rdshell rdinitdebug' to the kernel command line and here are the logs I got.
Created attachment 369985 [details] init.log file
do you happen to know which kernel modules are needed for your firewire?
Yes - lsmod in DVD rescue mode lists firewire_ohci, firewire_sbp2 and firewire_core.
chroot in rescue mode edit /etc/dracut.conf add_drivers="firewire_ohci firewire_sbp2 firewire_core" and rebuild the initramfs.img # dracut -f /boot/initramfs-<kernel version>.img <kernel version>
Thanks, that helped. I think core and sbp2 were already in original initramfs, but ohci wasn't.
dracut-003-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dracut-003-1.fc12
dracut-003-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dracut'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2009-12432
That update has fixed the problem, thank you.
dracut-004-4.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dracut-004-4.fc12
dracut-004-4.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dracut'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-1088
dracut-004-4.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.