On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 09:47:33PM +0000, Harry Moyes wrote: > After some puzzlement I tried installing the version from freshRPM's > using Synaptic. This fails as well, but has the good grace to error, > reporting that it is unable to generate an initrd, and reporting an > error relating to a MegaRAID controller > > seems I have one of these > > megaraid: found 0x101e:0x1960:bus 2:slot 4:func 0 > scsi0:Found MegaRAID controller at 0x2285f000, IRQ:185 > > and that kernel does not like it. > > Indeed I have no 2.6.9-1.3 initrd, which is clearly an issue, but > the silent loss of the error, and worse still the confirmation of > a correct install **when the update process clearly knew there was > an issue** since it did not add the 2.8.9 kernel to the boot menu > is seriously broken. This is fixed in the -1.6 RPM in updates-testing. (Which is due to move to updates-proper) Dave
