[TriLUG] New 2.6.8.1-10mdk Kernel Won't Boot

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Thu Oct 21 13:10:33 EDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 11:12, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:52:32 -0400, Joshua Gitlin <josh at glowfilms.com> wrote:
> > Now, however, the problem is trying to get the proper modules into my
> > initrd... The new kernel won't boot because the ext3.ko module is the
> > wrong version... Anyone know how to build a new initrd? I don't think
> > I've ever had to do that before...
> 
> Use the /sbin/mkinitrd script.  If you don't have it installed, do 
> 
> urpmi mkinitrd
> 
> to install it.  It will do everything you need to create an initrd file.

Shouldn't the "make install" in a proper kernel-source package already
do this?  Or maybe Joshua wasn't using "make install" ?

Jeremy

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