kernel.2166.athlon and initrd

[Norman Gaywood]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:20:09AM +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> Up2date downloaded the kernel installed it but hung at the end and 
> did'nt complete,on checking /boot there was'nt a 2166.nptl.img file
> and no entry in grub.conf for the kernel.
> So I removed the kernel and D/L from my mirror a new one installed
> rpm -ivh and the same problem,so I used the command "mkinitrd /boot/
> initrd-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl.img 2.4.22-1.2166.nptl" and it hung,then I
> added 'strace' and below is the last few lines of a long output.

It might be hanging on the umount as the last step of making the initrd.
So you could be seeing:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109962
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497

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