On Saturday 15 May 2004 13:45, Terry Eck wrote:
Hi
I updated k_athlon-2.4.20-109 to k_athlon-2.4.20-111 along with other programs YOU selected. After it finished I decided to reboot to use the updated kernel. During reboot the screen only showed the file "initrd (hd0,1)/initrd" was not found and the system halted. Reboot using CD Recovery mode and looked at /boot and found there was no initrd. I next made a mistake and copied the initrd from a backup source. On reboot the system halted with the work "GRUB" on the screen and would not allow any keyboard input. I'm now using my backup system which is a mirror off hda on hdb. If you've read this far and follow the above, I have the following questions:
1) Is there a bug in YOU for the latest kernel patch where initrd does not get created for the new kernel?
2) Knowing that the initrd file was missing, could I have created it? And if so, how?
As it stands now I've lost confidence in YOU. In the past I've never had problems using YOU even with kernel updates.
Regards, Terry PS: Just bought 9.2 Pro and will be installing over the next couple of weeks. I'd like to understand what happened with YOU before going further. -- SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) ---- 2.4.20-4GB-athlon --- Sat 05/15/04 16:20 4:20pm up 8:33, 3 users, load average: 0.21, 0.16, 0.18
I had the same problem with a dual celeron machine. You totally hoze initrd, and nothing would load. When I build it, it still wouldn't work because of some new found incompatibility with my IDE controler that I use for software raid. It managed to hoze one of the drives in the raid array trying to load. I went back to an earlier kernel, and am staying there until I put 9.1 down on the server. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen