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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080214/27b47fb0/attachment-0005.sig>