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

Thu Feb 14 10:25:55 UTC 2008
William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>

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*>

-- 
Bill