Fedora Core 3 Test Update: mkinitrd-4.1.18.1-1

[Dave Jones]

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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-654
2005-07-28
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Product     : Fedora Core 3
Name        : mkinitrd
Version     : 4.1.18.1                      
Release     : 1                  
Summary     : Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules.
Description :
Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd)
images. These ramdisk images are often used to preload the block
device modules (SCSI or RAID) needed to access the root filesystem. In
other words, generic kernels can be built without drivers for any SCSI
adapters which load the SCSI driver as a module. Since the kernel
needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able to address
the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used. The initial ramdisk is
loaded by the operating system loader (normally LILO) and is available
to the kernel as soon as the ramdisk is loaded. The ramdisk image
loads the proper SCSI adapter and allows the kernel to mount the root
filesystem. The mkinitrd program creates such a ramdisk using
information found in the /etc/modules.conf file.

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Update Information:

This update should fix the issue a number of people saw
after the recent kernel update where various modules would
fail to load during boot, making systems unbootable.

After updating this package, remove, and reinstall the
recent kernel update, and the initrd will be recreated
correctly.

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* Thu Jul 28 2005 Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com> - 4.1.18.1-1
- Make nash check pids returned from wait*() (#145660)


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This update can be downloaded from:
  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3/

c345d4124765ba2c0706d62ffdbd7bfe  SRPMS/mkinitrd-4.1.18.1-1.src.rpm
6dc604544361a5bff2248fad0e257762  x86_64/mkinitrd-4.1.18.1-1.x86_64.rpm
5c784bf8b612ffb2007f1263b075a80b 
x86_64/debug/mkinitrd-debuginfo-4.1.18.1-1.x86_64.rpm
4ad756b365de7f29b2c98e04d49eab96  i386/mkinitrd-4.1.18.1-1.i386.rpm
702eb31c016ee1da2b8fef7ff52ddb52  i386/debug/mkinitrd-debuginfo-4.1.18.1-1.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.  You may 
need to edit your up2date channels configuration.  Within 
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources enable the following line: 
yum updates-testing
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3/$ARCH
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