01-05-2010
Fedora installation getting stuck in initrd.img
I have a 80GB hard disk with WinXP already installed.I had tried installing Fedora 10 earlier without creating new partitions(real foolish and ignorant of me
) and tried creating partitions using Fedora10 bootable.It didnt work.Then I created a free partition and again tried installing Fedora10 using same procedure of creating 'Custom layout'.This time it again didnt work and in addition also corrupted Windows.I reinstalled Windows XP and used Partition magic to create a free partition of 20 GB in ext3 format.Now when i try to boot Fedora 10 the screen says 'Loading initrd.img and the PC restarts.This keeps on going. I tried with Fedora 12 bootable but now my PC says "LOADING initrd.img' and then says 'not enough memory' and nothing goes forward.
My windows working fine.My hard disk (80GB,two 20 GB parttions in NTFS,one 20GB partition in FAT32 and one 20GB partition in EXT3 format).RAM 512MB
Help
as i want dual boot in my system ...
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volunroot
volunroot(8) System Manager's Manual volunroot(8)
NAME
volunroot - Remove Logical Storage Manager hooks for rootable volumes
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/volunroot [-a | -A]
OPTIONS
Specifies that all volumes on the system disk be converted back to UNIX disk partitions, not just the root and swap volumes, rootvol and
swapvol. Forces removal of the private region unless it is the last one in the system.
DESCRIPTION
The volunroot script can be used to restore the accessibility of the root, swap, and other file systems on the boot disk directly through
disk partitions instead of through volume devices. The script also removes other changes that were made to enable booting of the system
from the root volume, so that the system will boot with no dependency on the Logical Storage Manager.
When used with no options, volunroot affects only the root and swap volumes, rootvol and swapvol.
For volunroot to work properly, only one plex must exist for each of the affected volumes. This plex must be the one created by volrootmir
or the original plex created when the root disk was encapsulated. This ensures that the underlying subdisks will have equivalent partitions
defined for them on the disk.
If these conditions are not met, the volunroot operation fails and none of the volumes are converted to disk partitions.
The unwanted plexes can be removed using either voledit or volplex.
SEE ALSO
volencap(8), voldiskadm(8), voledit(8), volintro(8), volplex(8), volrootmir(8)
volunroot(8)