--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Test Update Notification FEDORA-2006-945 2006-08-30 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 5 Name : mkinitrd Version : 5.0.32 Release : 2 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: mkinitrd needed rebuilding against parted-1.7.1. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Wed Aug 30 2006 David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> - 5.0.32-2 - Rebuild against new parted in FC5 (#189708) --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/5/ 5bd22f8c19510c1c0ef60c66cd73a4a19855ad1e SRPMS/mkinitrd-5.0.32-2.src.rpm 5bd22f8c19510c1c0ef60c66cd73a4a19855ad1e noarch/mkinitrd-5.0.32-2.src.rpm 5ca2d6192c43e39c6bd1968769d661f62c62c3f2 ppc/mkinitrd-5.0.32-2.ppc.rpm f93df2e9029290ad3365466ac110b29033cc9cbf ppc/debug/mkinitrd-debuginfo-5.0.32-2.ppc.rpm 97e05efdff2b597051cd87ff0855ba4498a8e5cf x86_64/debug/mkinitrd-debuginfo-5.0.32-2.x86_64.rpm 881eafb2a967789592b5abf393828a54e89c3159 x86_64/mkinitrd-5.0.32-2.x86_64.rpm 895127e49db53665328bc13a9cbfad5607e9f8f8 i386/mkinitrd-5.0.32-2.i386.rpm c9d59d3ec72d2c26d631b3efa416db89d85f29a0 i386/debug/mkinitrd-debuginfo-5.0.32-2.i386.rpm This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list