On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 01:16 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > Hi, > > I need to know if anyone has the magic incantation to get mkinitrd to build a > proper initrd from either rescue mode or the live cd. I need to put a drive > into another box that has a different disk controller in it. > > If I boot into rescue mode and setup a chroot, when I run mkinitrd I get > an error that says "error opening /sys/block: No such file or directory. Do you have a /sys directory on your installation. It is one of those pseudo directories like /proc. If not mkdir /sys might be worth doing. > > I also get the same error if I try to do the same thing from the live cd. > > The resulting initrd is unusable because the kernel cannot find the root > partition. > > I there a howto somewhere for this? > > I tried google but either I am not looking for the right thing or it does not > exist. > > Regards, > > Tom > -- ======================================================================= Only a mediocre person is always at his best. -- Laurence Peter ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
