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F12 on HP DL140 G3 SATA not booting

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I have recently upgraded a few servers with yum from 11 to 12. On a HP DL140 G3 with SATA disks in AHCI mode and LVM Filesystems the new F12 kernel won't boot with the following message: No root device found. Sleeping forever. The old F11 kernel still boots. Any ideas? Chris (HowTos)

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