Warning: kernel-2.6.19-1.2877.fc7 unbootable on Itanium systems (IA-64 architecture)

[Tom Brinkman]

On Saturday 16 December 2006 2:03 pm, pea510 at aol.de wrote:
> Check the size of your "inird" file. I you hadn't updated
> "mkinitrd" to the current version before installing the new
> "2.1.19" kernel, chances are high that it is corrupted. It's size
> then is much smaller than of that created for the older kernel.
> You might try to boot with the old kernel, update "mkinitrd" and
> reinstall the new kernel package. In my case this procedure was
> successful.

    Probly not respondin to me, but...

    I had updated initrd (heck all of rawhide kept current daily). 
An makin a new initrd resulted in the same panic. But I did check, 
an the 2877 kernel initrd is damn near twice the size.

 / # du -k /boot/initrd-2.6.1*
1045    /boot/initrd-2.6.16-1.2255_FC6.img
1045    /boot/initrd-2.6.16-1.2258_FC6.img
1356    /boot/initrd-2.6.17-1.2445.fc6.img
1484    /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2784.fc6.img
1483    /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
1483    /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2835.fc6.img
1491    /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.img
1489    /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2860.fc6.img
2877    /boot/initrd-2.6.19-1.2877.fc7.img
 / # du -k /boot/sav-initrd-2.6.19-1.2877.fc7.img
2872    /boot/sav-initrd-2.6.19-1.2877.fc7.img

    sav- is the original initrd.  I forgot to mention before that 
yum did install 2877 an update my grub.conf   OTOH, my tokeep=4 was 
ignored and an older rawhide kernel removed. Not what I wanted, but 
at least I'm aware (again) of it now.  It's happened before.
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    Tom Brinkman                        Corpus Christi, Texas