FC5 system won't boot after update

[Tim]

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 07:34 -0300, John DeDourek wrote:
> 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?

rpm -ql kernel |grep init
/lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2911.6.4.fc6/kernel/drivers/scsi/initio.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6/kernel/drivers/scsi/initio.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6/kernel/drivers/scsi/initio.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2933.fc6/kernel/drivers/scsi/initio.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2944.fc6/kernel/drivers/scsi/initio.ko

Doesn't look to me that it comes predefined with the kernel, and makes
sense that it's generated to suit the particular system.

> 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.)

I think it'd be easy enough to remove the latest kernel, check that
the /boot/init.... file for it has been removed, then try again.
Otherwise study mkinitrd, but it's not something I've ever looked at.

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