[SLL] Cent OS 5 Update - Fails to boot

[Eric]

Thanks! Worked like a charm!

Eric

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 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).
>
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>> 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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