[CentOS] mkinitrd trouble
Aleksandar Milivojevic
alex at milivojevic.org
Fri Feb 10 16:06:10 UTC 2006
Quoting Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex at milivojevic.org>:
> I've just updated one machine from 4.0 to 4.2. The trouble is, the
> new kernel doesn't want to boot (2.6.9-22.EL, also tested
> 2.6.9.22.0.2.EL). Usually, manually recreating initrd file solved
> this problem in the past for me. But not this time.
>
> Playing around, I also noticed that if I rebuild initrd for the old
> kernel, then it also fails to boot. The only way to boot it up is
> using the original initrd image created when the system was initally
> installed.
....
Well, found where the problem is. Current version of mkinitrd seems to
have some nasty habits... In case anybody else gets hit by this
problem, try downgrading mkinitrd:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164423
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