RE: [SLE] How do I restore original initrd?

24 Jan 2004


      On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 07:09, GarUlbricht7@netscape.net wrote:
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I have Suse 8.1 installed and recently updated the kernel to 2.4.19-166 for athlon.  However, I found that the Nortel Contivity software that I had been using to connect with work didn't support the new kernel.  So I decided to rollback to the one shipped in 8.1.
I did this, rebooted and Grub complains that it cannot find initrd.  I had forgotten to re-install this file also.  How can I put this file back onto /boot?
SuSE in their instructions for installing a new kernel
tell you to do (as root: "sux -")  "mk_initrd"
See:  http://www.suse.com/de/security/2004_01_linux_kernel.html
I would also consider installing using "ftp"
per the intructions in that html the new kernel,
if you select the right one for your architecture,
the install is pretty "simple" and then the got the
latest security patch.
Further questions, see "man init"
Hope this helps.
Friendly greetings,
Gar
If I read this right my ordinary PII and PIII processors would only use
one of the last two.  correct me if I am wrong.

CWSIV
 
    SuSE-8.2:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/rpm/i586/k_athlon-2.4.20-102.i586.rpm
      61de636fab3149ee5d45d16dccf8d0e8
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/rpm/src/k_athlon-2.4.20-102.src.rpm
      80b8f44b6f8f4d039b8954c709b457b0
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/rpm/i586/k_deflt-2.4.20-102.i586.rpm
      c25b57bc5d67d87177abf7953f022331
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/rpm/src/k_deflt-2.4.20-102.src.rpm
      29d014e79a3ee0b14a23cb0e4bdd0f0e
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/rpm/i586/k_smp-2.4.20-102.i586.rpm
      d42041b08cdee2d9959a4a6dad8b6e9d
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/rpm/src/k_smp-2.4.20-102.src.rpm
      22e598ebf546cd9378c852042b602f2f
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/rpm/i586/k_psmp-2.4.20-102.i586.rpm
      c2e0455b45eac55c97e13322ab40e4bc
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/rpm/src/k_psmp-2.4.20-102.src.rpm
      68b2d35ae0de009ac3fbc6ee9a0bb3fd

    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/rpm/i586/kernel-source-2.4.20.SuSE-102.i586.rpm
      0f539af39523fd27232289014db36202
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/rpm/src/kernel-source-2.4.20.SuSE-102.src.rpm
      14c238bbbd7758abc2b4113a7297f2b5

RE: [SLE] How do I restore original initrd?

Carl William Spitzer IV