Les Mikesell wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
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".
The only thing that matters at this point is the driver for the disk
containing your root partition. You can fix the other stuff after you
are able to boot normally. The 'no modules' error means you didn't
type your kernel version number number exactly right. It has to match
what's on the system.
So guess I'm dead. we need a real F7 HowTo for this. It is now a
catch 22 thing.
If you booted the install CD in rescue mode, the hardware would have
been detected and the right module loaded. You can probably figure
out the disk driver you need from what 'lsmod' says in rescue mode.
The reason you don't see a HowTo for this is that it is easier to
re-install because the installer checks the hardware and sets all the
right things up automatically. Its only worth doing it this way if
you have configured a lot of applications that will be difficult to
repeat.
Hi Les, well I gave up almost. But I told the F7 DVD to upgrade the bad
F7 and it added an older kernel with all the trimmings. The thing comes
up but I have some video and kernel stuff to do. With the whole thing up
it's easy to do if you don't scew up :-)
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
