I moved hard disks into a new machine. Previously when I have done this I just booted off CD, ran mkinitrd in a chrooted file system to make a new initrd in /boot. I did that, rebooted and straight after the grub prompt expires (ie the kernel loaded) the monitor is put into some graphics mode (no characters/text is visible, just horisontal streaks) and the system stops with caps lock & scroll lock flashing. I (as a temporary measure) installed another SATA disk and installed a small system there (same distro version). It worked as expected. I copied the /boot/initramfs... over into /boot on the original disks and if I use that - it all works. I rebuild using dracut and it fails as described above. I notice that the /boot/initramfs* files are very different sizes: 15M the one that works - new install to temp disk 23M the one that fails - rebuilt with dracut What can I do to make this work ? This has been a few weeks on & off. The old hardware was 32 bit intel something, the new is 64 bit AMD. There are prob lots of other changes, but I don't think that the details matter too much - I should be able to just rebuild the initrd. The Operating system is CentOS 6.5. Kernel 2.6.32-358 -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php #include <std_disclaimer.h> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
