djBo
May 20th, 2009, 10:32 PM
Hi list,
My system:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+/4Gb RAM
ATI Radeon 3870 PCIe (using ati fglrx)
sata boot disk
sata storage disks
Ubuntu 8.10 running 2.6.27-11-generic
My issue:
For some reason, after I have done a kernel upgrade, mkinitramfs will not create a proper initrd that boots my system even though nothing has changed before/after the upgrade. In this case I am trying to upgrade to 2.6.27.14-generic.
I have had this with the previous kernel update too, and had not made a backup copy of the working initrd image. I had reinstalled my system to overcome the problem... I know... silly.
This time round I had made a backup, and have been using the 2.6.27-11 kernel still. I had to boot from the cd in order to fix my grub menu, which it also had nicely overwritten too after the update.
The weird thing is, when I try to create a new initrd image for the current running kernel by hand, I am faced again with a non working initrd image (not finding/booting my hdd)...
The command I use to create the image:
mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27.14-generic-new 2.6.27.14-generic
When booting, I simply edit the command line to rename the initrd image to boot it.
I hope someone can shed some light on my issue as to why this is not working as expected.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Bo
My system:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+/4Gb RAM
ATI Radeon 3870 PCIe (using ati fglrx)
sata boot disk
sata storage disks
Ubuntu 8.10 running 2.6.27-11-generic
My issue:
For some reason, after I have done a kernel upgrade, mkinitramfs will not create a proper initrd that boots my system even though nothing has changed before/after the upgrade. In this case I am trying to upgrade to 2.6.27.14-generic.
I have had this with the previous kernel update too, and had not made a backup copy of the working initrd image. I had reinstalled my system to overcome the problem... I know... silly.
This time round I had made a backup, and have been using the 2.6.27-11 kernel still. I had to boot from the cd in order to fix my grub menu, which it also had nicely overwritten too after the update.
The weird thing is, when I try to create a new initrd image for the current running kernel by hand, I am faced again with a non working initrd image (not finding/booting my hdd)...
The command I use to create the image:
mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27.14-generic-new 2.6.27.14-generic
When booting, I simply edit the command line to rename the initrd image to boot it.
I hope someone can shed some light on my issue as to why this is not working as expected.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Bo