On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 14:57 +1100, Steven Haigh wrote:
There are a number of differences in the initrd, although nothing that I would call obvious as causing an issue..
# gunzip -cd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.img |cpio -t |more 6097 blocks bin <snip> ...
sys etc
#
# gunzip -cd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.img |cpio -t |more 9679 blocks bin bin/dmraid
<snip>
sys etc
#
Do yourself a favor, as you'll probably have several more comparisons to do.
When making the lists, sort the output, either piped to sort or make a sorted version afterward, and use comm (man comm). You can see a nice consolidated output, or select any combination of "only on file1", "only on file2", ... both, etc. Makes detecting differences much faster.
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If grub had a "one time" next boot like LILO, I'd have some more thoughts, but <*sigh*>