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

[Bart Vanbrabant]

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.

Hi,

I had the same problem. When I first booted the 2.6.19-1.2877.fc7 kernel
I got a kernel panic it couldn't start init. I booted back to the
previous kernel and my initrd was only 336k, I updated it and now it's
3.6M. I checked my logs to see how yum updated my kernel and mkinitrd:

Dec 12 17:01:00 localhost Updated: mkinitrd.i386 6.0.3-1
Dec 16 11:45:43 localhost Updated: mkinitrd.i386 6.0.5-1
Dec 16 11:48:03 localhost Installed: kernel.i686 2.6.19-1.2877.fc7

So I had the new mkinitrd before my kernel was updated. If necessary I
can upload the initrd created at the updated and the one I created.

What will happen the next time grub needs to be installed? Will the grup
device map be updated to the new device naming?

gr,

Bart

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