on 2/14/2008 2:25 AM William L. Maltby spake the following:
I have been hoping for that option for years. I have used other options like using sed or cp, but they are still susceptible to failures. All my new hardware has been HP's with the ILO feature, so I haven't had to worry about it for a while.On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 14:57 +1100, Steven Haigh wrote:There are a number of differences in the initrd, although nothing that I would call obvious as causing an issue.. --------------------- # gunzip -cd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.img |cpio -t |more 6097 blocks bin <snip> ...sys etc # --------------------- # gunzip -cd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.img |cpio -t |more 9679 blocks bin bin/dmraid <snip>sys etc # ---------------------Do yourself a favor, as you'll probably have several more comparisons to do. When making the lists, sort the output, either piped to sort or make a sorted version afterward, and use comm (man comm). You can see a nice consolidated output, or select any combination of "only on file1", "only on file2", ... both, etc. Makes detecting differences much faster.<snip>If grub had a "one time" next boot like LILO, I'd have some more thoughts, but <*sigh*>
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