Submitted 28-Jul-00 by Craig Woods:
> My pronblem came about when trying to UPGRADE my kernel to 2.2.16 It would
^^^^^^^
_Never_ do this. When using rpm to install a new kernel, do not use upgrade,
use install. Choosing upgrade erases your old kernel and its associated
modules so that if you have problems (like you did) you cannot easily recover.
> How does this come about No I installed the exact same Mandrake 7.1 CD on
> three diofferent machines, on two it comes up with this initrd stuff, on
> the thrid it just did a plain install and the eleant files in /boot were
> the kernel and System.map, no initrd stuff I see no install time selection
> to choose this type of boot process, either in expert or custom or
> automated install
If you have SCSI drives or use a ReiserFS you must have an initrd or the
filesystem cannot be mounted.
> I did find some docs on it , but I cannot find it again
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fupdate.php3
> You see when you come to do an rpm upgrade of the kernel no new initrd is
> generated. If this line is left out of lilo.conf it will not bot that kernel
It isn't supposed to be, becuase RPM doesn't know if you need one or not.
> Please someone explain this , or point me to the docs for it
> Thanks
Using your boot disk (You _did_ make a boot floppy, didn't you?), you should
be able to get into the systems and mkinitrd (please read the manpage).
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