<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#3333ff"> Jack Holden wrote: <blockquote cite="mid443AE67D.8000003@starband.net" type="cite">Dan wrote: <blockquote type="cite">Jack Holden wrote: <blockquote type="cite">I am running FC5 with the 2.6.15-1.2054 kernel and mkinitrd-5.0.32. When I try to create a new initrd, mkinitrd fails with the error: /sbin/mkinitrd: line 975: initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.TEST.img Permission denied I've tried using different file names with the same result. I've also tried when logged in as root from the initial login (boot level 3) as well as via su from both the cli and xterm. Same thing. I've also tried building the initrd in the /boot and /root directories. I believe that this is the version of mkinitrd that was included with the installation. I have updated everything via yum update, but I can't run the 2.6.16-2080 kernel yet (problem with dmraid). I have the source packages for 2.6.15-2054 and 2.6.16-2080 installed. I have successfully created initrd's before with this system, but I can't remember if it was before or after yum update. (I think it was after because it was an attempt to fix the dmraid problem with 2.6.16-2080.) Can anyone suggest a fix or something to look at? I've looked at mkinitrd and didn't see anything alarming about line 975. I appreciate any advice. Thanks, Jack Holden </blockquote> Perhaps an SELinux issue. I don't know how to use it so check the vast numbers of posts on this list about fixing those issues. Look in your logs for avc denied messages. -Dan </blockquote> The suggestions I've gotten so far: 1 - Is /boot mounted as read only? I hate to admit this, but I don't set my systems up with separate partitions. Everything is mounted under / (except SWAP). The file system is mounted as read + write, and I've tried making the initrd in /root and /boot with the same results. 2 - Could it be an SELinux problem? It's possible. I'm not much of an SELinux expert. However, I disabled SELinux during the initial installation, and I think it's still disabled. I checked the config file in /etc/selinux and it still appears to be disabled. Is anyone else having this problem? TIA. Thanks, Jack Holden </blockquote> Turns out this was a bone-head problem. I started digging around in the mkinitrd script and realized that the script isn't path aware. Target files like ./initrd.img are not created in the directory from which you run the script. The script ends up in the /sys directory by the time it finishes putting the image file together. Line 975 runs gzip on the image (which is in /tmp). The script will fail if the target file doesn't point it away from /sys. So, targets like /boot/initrd.img or /root/initrd.img will work, but ones like initrd.img or ./initrd.img will fail. Thanks to everyone who suggested things to look at. I hope this is helpful to someone else down the road. Jack Holden </body> </html>