[CentOS] Re: Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

[Scott Silva]

on 2/14/2008 2:25 AM William L. Maltby spake the following:
> 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.
> 
>> <snip>
> 
> If grub had a "one time" next boot like LILO, I'd have some more
> thoughts, but <*sigh*>
> 
I have been hoping for that option for years. I have used other options like 
using sed or cp, but they are still susceptible to failures.
All my new hardware has been HP's with the ILO feature, so I haven't had to 
worry about it for a while.

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