Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 9/2/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:
I hate when that happens. "Upgrade" indeed.
unmounting old /dev
unmounting old /proc
unmounting old /sys> >>> WARNING: Can't Access
exec of init () failed: no such file or directory
looks like it's failing on the pivot_root or swichroot (i can't remember
what fedora uses) call.
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
This is *way* past the grub stage. It's already loaded the kernel and
initial ramdisk, which is grub's main task. The only thing that may be
awry in the grub configuration would be the kernel command line,
specifically the 'root=' parameter. If you've got labeled filesystems
(fedora usually defaults to this) you should be able to change that line
to 'root=LABEL=/' and see if that changes anything.
of # fdisk -l
and a look at grub.conf are the items of interest.
Also, you might want to add a kcmd arg saying, "init=/sbin/init" or
"init=/bin/sh" to see if it's mounting the proper filesystem. If you
still get the, "Can't Access" message, you're mounting the wrong
filesystem as / and it's telling you in a roundabout way. FWIW, the
initrd defaults to running /sbin/init on the filesystem, which is why
the error message is "Can't Access " instead of "Can't Access
/sbin/init" (and the parenthesis in the following line are blank).
Good luck, and let us know if this works!
-Kelsey
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