Re: updating my kernel just trashed my machine
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Jerry Amundson wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day
<rpjday(a)crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
> after "yum update kernel", reboot:
>
> Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while ...
> Volume group "VolGroup" not found
> Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup/lv_swap)
> mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
>
> at this point, i think it's time to wipe the machine and wait for
> the next attempt. life is too short for this.
Or, just select the previous kernel at boot.
Sounds the initrd image failure I had a couple weeks ago. There are
updates for that, IIRC...
regardless of which kernel i now boot, i'm screwed. i get the above
error message for the *original* kernel, while booting under the new
kernel gives me gdm/prefdm errors so i don't have an X session
anymore.
at this point, i think it's time to just wait for the next release
candidate and see if things improve.
rday
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