FC5 system won't boot after update
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Apr 17 13:49:25 UTC 2007
John DeDourek wrote:
> Yes. No problem with that. It still boots and runs fine
> under the old kernel.
> A previous reply suggested that the new kernel might have
> a bad initrd.
> Can anyone tell me whether the initrd is
> installed as a binary from the kernel package, or is
> custom built by a script during the install process? If
> the latter, I am inclined to remove and reinstall the new
> kernel, thus rebuilding the new initrd. (Or, I will find
> the instructions for rebuilding the initrd manually.)
>
It is built during the install. This is because it is specific to
the system it is installed on. It is created by running mkinitrd.
Mikkel
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