https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337386 Summary: mkinitrd Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: nabil83@snafu.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Customer I don't know whether you consider these as real bugs but anyway I want to report this: --> kernel without initial ramdisk When I compile a kernel without initial ramdisk I always end up with an error message when booting the system: "unable to open an initial console". What does that mean? I have never got an error like this with older SuSE versions. --> initial ramdisk Then I tried to create a ramdisk with 'mkinitrd'. The result was a boot message "failed to execute /init" and then kernel panic. Nice. I was really upset what is going on. Finally I found out that all ramdisks created by 'mkinitrd' have a link bash -> /bin/bash in /bin instead of the bash itself. Since the bash is not available the ramdisk of course cannot work. The I guessed the reason. On my system was a symbolic link which I created with "ln -s /bin/bash /usr/bin/bash" (in case a script has #!/usr/bin/bash as first line). Obviously this has the consequence that you end up with a symbolic link in your ramdisk. I removed the symbolic link and the ramdisk was created correctly. I consider this as a bug. Please fix that. Thank you. Frank -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.