I have upgraded a number of RH8 and RH7.3 boxes (all running from IDE disks) to a new kernel using apt-get without any hustle. So far no problems. I wanted to start upgrading servers running of SCSI disks, but I noticed an unexpected feature. Namely, file /initrd-2.4.20-30.7.legacy.img file was not created during the upgrade. The initrd is typically used for temporarily booting the hardware into a state, that the real kernel vmlinuz can than take over and continue the booting. For example - you can't read the kernel off the scsi hard disk until you have a scsi driver loaded in the kernel. My /etc/grub.conf points to non-existing image. Is this correct? title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-30.7.legacy) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-30.7.legacy ro root=/dev/hda9 initrd /initrd-2.4.20-30.7.legacy.img I can manually create this image running command mkinitrd /initrd-2.4.20-30.7.legacy.img 2.4.20-30.7.legacy Thank you in advance. -- ================================================================================ Ivan Teliatnikov phone: +61 2 9351 2031 fax: +61 2 9351 0184 mobile_phone: +61 402 173 179 email: ivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx School of Geosciences F05 - Edgeworth David Building The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia ===============================================================================
