permission denied problems on first boot

[kbbass]

This has been a long sordid convoluted path to getting FC10 (and FC9 as well) installed.

In short, when the kernel begins its first boot, it fails to start HAL and avahi. Which means when X starts up, I have no mouse or keyboard. Kinda useless.

I looked in var/log/messages and I found several Permission denied messages. The first ones were for /etc/hosts, /etc/host.allow, and /etc/hosts.deny. Later on There was another Permission denied, this one for avahi doing its chroot().

Any ideas?

The long story (FWIW) is this: I have a Promise raid controller, that Fedora sees as an i2o device. Due to a known bug in previous versions (FC9 and probably earlier), mkinitrd fails to set up the correct i2o modules to load into the initrd image. The solution to this was to boot up into rescue mode, chroot() to the sysimage, patch mkinitrd, then run mkinitrd. All that worked and the kernel started booting from the initrd ram image. But then I got the permission denied errrors mentioned above.

I installed FC10 with no problems on another desktop with no raid array, i2o, etc.

HELP!

ken

[Rubberman]

Have you contacted Promise about updated drivers for Linux, especially for FC or RHEL? Also, are these missing write permissions, or are they read errors? Have you verified the permissions and ownership on these files?