On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 07:34 -0300, John DeDourek wrote: > A previous reply suggested that the new kernel might have > a bad initrd. > > Can anyone tell me whether the initrd is installed as a binary from > the kernel package, or is custom built by a script during the install > process? rpm -ql kernel |grep init /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2911.6.4.fc6/kernel/drivers/scsi/initio.ko /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6/kernel/drivers/scsi/initio.ko /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6/kernel/drivers/scsi/initio.ko /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2933.fc6/kernel/drivers/scsi/initio.ko /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2944.fc6/kernel/drivers/scsi/initio.ko Doesn't look to me that it comes predefined with the kernel, and makes sense that it's generated to suit the particular system. > If the latter, I am inclined to remove and reinstall the new > kernel, thus rebuilding the new initrd. (Or, I will find > the instructions for rebuilding the initrd manually.) I think it'd be easy enough to remove the latest kernel, check that the /boot/init.... file for it has been removed, then try again. Otherwise study mkinitrd, but it's not something I've ever looked at. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
