--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Test Update Notification FEDORA-2005-654 2005-07-28 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : mkinitrd Version : 4.1.18.1 Release : 1 Summary : Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules. Description : Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd) images. These ramdisk images are often used to preload the block device modules (SCSI or RAID) needed to access the root filesystem. In other words, generic kernels can be built without drivers for any SCSI adapters which load the SCSI driver as a module. Since the kernel needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able to address the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used. The initial ramdisk is loaded by the operating system loader (normally LILO) and is available to the kernel as soon as the ramdisk is loaded. The ramdisk image loads the proper SCSI adapter and allows the kernel to mount the root filesystem. The mkinitrd program creates such a ramdisk using information found in the /etc/modules.conf file. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update should fix the issue a number of people saw after the recent kernel update where various modules would fail to load during boot, making systems unbootable. After updating this package, remove, and reinstall the recent kernel update, and the initrd will be recreated correctly. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Thu Jul 28 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> - 4.1.18.1-1 - Make nash check pids returned from wait*() (#145660) --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3/ c345d4124765ba2c0706d62ffdbd7bfe SRPMS/mkinitrd-4.1.18.1-1.src.rpm 6dc604544361a5bff2248fad0e257762 x86_64/mkinitrd-4.1.18.1-1.x86_64.rpm 5c784bf8b612ffb2007f1263b075a80b x86_64/debug/mkinitrd-debuginfo-4.1.18.1-1.x86_64.rpm 4ad756b365de7f29b2c98e04d49eab96 i386/mkinitrd-4.1.18.1-1.i386.rpm 702eb31c016ee1da2b8fef7ff52ddb52 i386/debug/mkinitrd-debuginfo-4.1.18.1-1.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. You may need to edit your up2date channels configuration. Within /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources enable the following line: yum updates-testing http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3/$ARCH --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list