Re: Not such a smooth upgrade to 2011... Help?

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Jim Beard grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>=20
> Actually, the old kernel should make no difference.  You will have the
> new mkinitrd or dracut, and it will look at the modules for the new
> kernel, so it matters not which kernel is running at the time.
>=20
> Hence, no need  to resort to the rescue-mode install disk.

Cool.

>> Wow!  I just checked my /boot partition, and look what I found:
>>
>>> -rw-------  1 root root 9386626 Oct  9  2010
>>> initrd-2.6.33.7-desktop-2mnb.img
>>> -rw-------  1 root root      27 Oct 22 20:30
>>> initrd-2.6.38.7-desktop-1mnb2.img
>>
>> Maybe that 2.6.38.7 image is why the fscking system can't boot? :-)
>> I'll definitely try running mkinitrd from the running system to see if=

>> it'll create an initrd I can use; if that fails then I'll boot off a D=
VD
>> and try the above.
>=20
> With a 27 byte initrd, it is hardly surprising that the system would no=
t
> boot.

Yea, kinda what I was thinking. :-)  Weird that doing a urpmi
kernel-desktop-latest would result in such a borked initrd image file....=


I ran the command and got thus:


> [root@janet /boot ]# mkinitrd -f initrd-2.6.38.7-desktop-1mnb2.img 2.6.=
38.7-desktop-1mnb2
> Need 'inst' function, try setting PLYMOUTH_POPULATE_SOURCE_FUNCTIONS to=
 a file that defines it
> [root@janet /boot ]# ls -la initrd*
> -rw------- 1 root root 9386626 Oct  9  2010 initrd-2.6.33.7-desktop-2mn=
b.img
> -rw------- 1 root root 3346099 Oct 23 10:17 initrd-2.6.38.7-desktop-1mn=
b2.img
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      33 Oct 22 20:30 initrd-desktop.img -> initr=
d-2.6.38.7-desktop-1mnb2.img
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      33 Oct 22 20:30 initrd.img -> initrd-2.6.38=
=2E7-desktop-1mnb2.img
> [root@janet /boot ]#

Is that "Need 'inst' function" message anything I really need to worry
about at this point?

The initrd is certainly smaller than the current one.  I'll post later
if it worked in getting me up and running on the new kernel; and then I
can go back to trying to get the rest of the 9 million packages upgraded
to 2011....

>> Thanks for that information, BTW!
>>
>>> Also, mkinitrd on a 2011 system will use
>>> dracut to create the initrd, while mkinitrd-mkinitrd will use the
>>> traditional mkinitrd to create it.
>>
>> Any functional difference between the two?  Should I care which one is=

>> getting used?
>=20
> I have found the dracut initrds are a bit larger than the mkinitrds, bu=
t
> I find no difference in how they behave.  Those interested in such
> things claim the dracut software is technically superior, but it has no=
t
> been in use as long and may harbor undetected bugs.

Thanks.

              --Dave


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