On 9/11/07, kelsey hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
Is this not another way of stating that grub is looking in the wrong
place for the kernel?
> > 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.
Again another way of saying "looking in the wrong place".
>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).
Sorry that I was not sufficiently explicit.
carl
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