On 9/2/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> > James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> >> Paul G. Allen wrote:
> >>> I tried to upgrade my laptop from FC4 to FC6. Everything seemed to work
> >>> fine, but when I boot, I get an error such as this:
> >>>
> >>> unmounting old /dev
> >>> unmounting old /proc
> >>> unmounting old /sys> >>> WARNING: Can't Access
> >>> exec of init () failed: no such file or directory
> >>>
> >>> So far I've tried changing several things in grub.conf and fstab, and
> >>> have been googling for similar problems and fixes, but I still have had
> >>> no success. Anyone seen this type of problem before?
> >>>
> >> The message sounds to me like the transition out of initrd failed.
> >>
> >> I wish the "Can't access" warning were more explicit! :-(
> >>
> >> Google does show some hints that this may be xen related.
> >
> > The more I think of that, the more I think xen is unrelated.
> >
> >> Can you post your grub.conf, and the output of fdisk -l ?
> >>
> >
>
> Oh and also, I doubt it's got anything to do with fstab, since it's not
> even running init (which runs the scripts that use/need fstab).
Looks to me like the name of a file system (partition) has changed,
and grub is looking in the wrong place while booting. Indeed output
of # fdisk -l
and a look at grub.conf are the items of interest.
carl
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