On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 17:48 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 17:16 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > > > >> Les Mikesell wrote: > >> > >>> Karl Larsen wrote: > >>> > >>>> I read the man initrd and it said to make a new file for use you > >>>> do this: > >>>> > >>>> CONFIGURATION > >>>> The /dev/initrd is a read-only block device assigned major > >>>> number 1 and > >>>> minor number 250. Typically /dev/initrd is owned by > >>>> root.disk with > >>>> mode 0400 (read access by root only). If the Linux system > >>>> does not > >>>> have /dev/initrd already created, it can be created with the > >>>> following > >>>> commands: > >>>> > >>>> mknod -m 400 /dev/initrd b 1 250 > >>>> chown root:disk /dev/initrd > >>>> Also, support for both "RAM disk" and "Initial RAM disk" > >>>> (e.g. CON- > >>>> FIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y ) support must > >>>> be com- > >>>> piled directly into the Linux kernel to use /dev/initrd. > >>>> When using > >>>> /dev/initrd, the RAM disk driver cannot be loaded as a module. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Well I looked for /dev/initrd in this computer and there is none! > >>>> So I think the man page is wrong! Well this is it about for me. All > >>>> the Google data is for Red Hat 6. > >>>> > >>> You don't need /dev/initrd - you need > >>> /boot/initrd-your-kernel-version.img as mentioned in grub. man > >>> mkinitrd will show the command to build a new one and the only special > >>> trick is that you need to put the necessary but missing 'alias' > >>> entries in /etc/modprobe.conf first so it will include your driver > >>> modules in the new image. > >>> > >>> > >> Well Les, I have no idea what Internet thing I have, no idea what > >> the sound card is called. So I deleted the ones from this computer. But > >> when mkintrd ran it said can't make it because it exists. So I deleted > >> the 2 in /boot. Then ran it and said "no modules available for this kernel". > >> > >> So guess I'm dead. we need a real F7 HowTo for this. It is now a > >> catch 22 thing. > >> > > ---- > > I am probably flogging a dead horse here but the whole point of anaconda > > is to detect your hardware and install an OS that is compatible with > > your hardware - which is of course lost when you run the installer on > > one system and then copy the installation over to another...this is > > often a problem on Windows too. > > > > As for an F7 HowTo - I'm quite sure that information regarding hardware > > detection, modprobe.conf and initrd is out there and very little > > difference would be found between FC6 and F7 but those without the > > experience/skill sets to manage it would find it endlessly confusing. > > Case in point...I found a walk through for compiling the old megaraid > > modules on RHEL 4 on the Internet which worked fine on RHEL 4.0 but had > > to be adjusted when Red Hat shipped RHEL 4.1 or a number of adjustments > > had to be made for CentOS because their CentOS-4 installation CD used an > > i586 boot kernel instead of an i686 boot kernel. Even with walk the walk > > through and my noted changes for CentOS were so difficult that I only > > noticed 1 other person on the CentOS mail list that was capable of > > getting it accomplished. > > > > Short of above...re-install directly on the hardware you are going to be > > using and problems go away. > > > > > Bullshit Craig! If I just reload F7 then I am stuck with 200 updates and > several days getting the whole thing running again. > > All your above is about old Linux so you know NOTHING about F7. ---- thanks for confirming my dis-inclination to try to help you through it. have fun -- Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
