-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2006-11-27 at 01:09 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: ...
For example, after booting using the 10.1 Installation DVD uname -a shows that the kernel is 2.6.16.13-4 but the kernel now actually in place is 2.6.16.21-0.25 and, of course, initrd etc also have this same (latter) number.
It took a "few" minutes to work out why you said that not using any parameters with the mkinitrd command will create a default image which will match the current kernel - in this case being the old ...16.13-4 kernel which is not what I need.
Did you try that, or is it a guess? :-? If it is a guess, as I think, then try it and don't waste more time :-p If you get an initrd for the old version then I'll tell you how to solve that. But I don't think you will.
This of course would explain why booting from the DVD works even though there is a corruption in,say, initird because it is the kernel etc which is on the DVD which is used and until the damage is repaired the OS continues to run on the old kernel etc. At least this is what I make of it :-) .
Correct.
I'll recreate the initrd as described later today after rereading all that has been stated 'cause I don't want to mess things up even more and have to reinstall not only 10.1 but XP as well even though I only use it once in a blue moon.
I have run the mkinitrd dozens or hundreds of times, and it never broke my install, that I can remember. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFabuJtTMYHG2NR9URAkl7AJ9dDxY3AQpy65M6HLJXX6GG91QeOwCgkfww rb4o3bjzfl8TM7Lle2vHtyA= =F06F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org