[SLL] Cent OS 5 Update - Fails to boot

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 18 July 2007 10:37:39 am Eric wrote:
> I gave this a try and this is what I get when I run the mkinitrd command:
>
> [root at localhost ~]# mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.img
> vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5
> No modules available for kernel "vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5".
> [root at localhost ~]#
>
> I don't do much kernel modifications generally so I want to make sure I
> am doing this right, especially for a server.

That would be 'mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.img 
2.6.18-8.1.8.el5' instead. (drop the 'vmlinuz-' part).


> Francois Caen wrote:
> > On 7/16/07, Eric <eric at kahklen.com> wrote:
> >> So each time Cent OS or any distro without my specific driver support
> >> has a kernel upgrade that doesn't include my 3ware card drivers
> >> natively, I'll have to run through this exercise again?
> >
> > No. 5.1 should have the right driver. This is only for a few months.
> >
> > Until then, it's just 2 commands. Nothing to compile:
> >
> > # cp -a /lib/modules/<old-kernel>/updates/
> > /lib/modules/<new-kernel>/updates/
> > # mkinitrd -v -f /boot/<new-kernel>.img <new-kernel>



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Jarod Wilson
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