On 3 Dec 2011, at 15:56, Scott Doty wrote:
On 12/03/2011 04:30 AM, Scott van Looy wrote:
>
> Isn't there supposed to be an initramfs for 3.1.2-1?
My system has:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15945815 Dec 1 21:24
initramfs-3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64.img
So yes, you should have one.
> Is this a bug?
Depends. If you used preupgrade to move from f15 to f16, it's probably
a bug. If you used yum to do so, I'm not sure that that is an
"approved" method of upgrading...one does so at their own risk.
I did. It's been doing this for a little while now, I just wanted to double check the
new kernel is the same.
What's new is that it didn't even tell me there was an error this timeā¦I thought
it might have just worked :)
> If there's supposed to be one, if so, how can I generate one? Once I have, do I
need to reinstall grub?
>
You could use dracut to build the initrd, but you're probably better off
re-installing the kernel package. Something like:
$ su -
# yumdownloader kernel
# rpm -ivh --force kernel.package.file.name.rpm
I tried yum reinstall kernel and got the same error.
You don't need to re-install grub, but you should double-check grub.conf
before rebooting to the new kernel.
I currently have grub and grub2 - how can I tell which my system is using? Or do I just
amend grub2 then run grub2-install /dev/sda?
Also, I do believe f16 includes a move to grub2 -- at least, the tools
are installed after I ran preupgrade & upgraded. But my system was left
still using grub. That's not such a bad thing, since the grub2.conf
syntax has completely changed, making us all grub noobs again.
There's also a wiki page somewhere that talks about post-upgrade
cleanups one should perform to make sure old packages are thoroughly
removed...ask in #fedora about that, or maybe someone will post the link.
Yeah, I followed all that.
I was given some advice a while back to run dracut in sh -x - that works for me (but
installing the rpm in sh -x doesn't work for me)
But it doesn't work in bash.
/sbin/dracut initramfs-3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64.img 3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64 in bash just prints out
the help associated with dracut, as if I'd not given it any arguments.
sh -x /sbin/dracut initramfs-3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64.img 3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64 works
I have no real idea what the issue could be, if you or anyone else has any suggestions
it'd be appreciated!
Scott