So as usual, I was skipping a step. I did need to include the boot= kernel parameter since /boot was separate from root. It wasn't getting mounted. Everything seems to be working now. On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Evan Rowley <rowley.evan at gmail.com> wrote: > I don't have expertise on this issue, but it would be interesting if that > bit of shell script there were adjusted to also print out the fstab and > possibly other diagnostic information relevant to the problem. That way, > you might get a clue as to where /boot is coming from. Then again, I'm not > even sure if that is something you can edit with your current situation. > You did say the system was unbootable. It's probably an edit you'd need to > make while mounting the hard disk from another system, like a live cd for > example. > > On Sunday, April 20, 2014, Dale Harris <rodmur at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sorry if you see this twice, I may have goofed: >> >> Hey, >> >> So I was playing around with trying to get a CentOS 6.5 system >> FIPS-140 complaint. However, my system panics because it cannot find >> the hmac file associated with my kernel. It's basically as what is >> going on is described in this bug report: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805538 >> >> The /sbin/fips.sh script in the initramfs there is a bit of code: >> >> if ! [ -e "/boot/.vmlinuz-${KERNEL}.hmac" ]; then >> warn "/boot/.vmlinuz-${KERNEL}.hmac does not exist" >> return 1 >> fi >> >> But that file does exist on the system. I guess the initramfs may not >> see the /boot directory on the system? Or is it trying to look for >> /boot inside the initramfs? If so that would explain my problem. I >> haven't verified any of this yet. But seems like /boot ought to be >> mounted for the system... anyone know of a fix for this? >> >> >> -- >> Dale Harris >> rodmur at maybe.org <javascript:;> >> rodmur at gmail.com <javascript:;> >> /.-) >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org <javascript:;> >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > > -- > - EJR > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Dale Harris rodmur at maybe.org rodmur at gmail.com /.-)