Boot poster challenge

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sun Nov 21 03:23:48 UTC 2004


On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 09:47:33PM +0000, Harry Moyes wrote:

 > After some puzzlement I tried installing the version from freshRPM's  
 > using Synaptic. This fails as well, but has the good grace to error,
 > reporting that it is unable to generate an initrd, and reporting an
 > error relating to a MegaRAID controller
 > 
 > seems I have one of these
 > 
 > megaraid: found 0x101e:0x1960:bus 2:slot 4:func 0
 > scsi0:Found MegaRAID controller at 0x2285f000, IRQ:185
 > 
 > and that kernel does not like it. 
 > 
 > Indeed I have no 2.6.9-1.3 initrd, which is clearly an issue, but
 > the silent loss of the error, and worse still the confirmation of
 > a correct install **when the update process clearly knew there was
 > an issue** since it did not add the 2.8.9 kernel to the boot menu
 > is seriously broken.

This is fixed in the -1.6 RPM in updates-testing.
(Which is due to move to updates-proper)

		Dave




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