On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson < [email protected]> wrote:
> Frank Millman wrote: > > > > Thanks for the reply, Mikkel. > > > > I tried, but unfortunately I don't know enough to figure it out :-( > > > > I ran chroot /mnt/sysimage. I read 'man mkinitrd', but I cannot work out > > what parameters to use. I tried 'mkinitrd -vf', but it just returned to > the > > prompt silently. I rebooted, but nothing had changed. > > > > I cannot see anything in /boot - it seems that it is not mounted, and I > > don't know how to mount it manually. /etc/fstab shows a UUID number. > > > > It is not that important for me to get this working - I don't mind > > re-installing from scratch. However, it would be nice to know how to > solve > > this problem for the future, in case it ever happens with live data > > involved. For example, a mother board could fail, but the HDD is intact, > so > > you just want to move it to a new machine. > > > > BTW, getting it to work off the old machine is not important, so a simple > > re-generation of the image is sufficient. > > > > Any assistance will be appreciated. > > > > Frank > > > Well, if you were building for kernel 2.6.26.3-14.f8, you would run: > > mkinitrd /boot/test.img 2.6.26.3-14.f8 > > Then you would have something like this in grub.conf (excuse the > line wrap): > > title New Board > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.3-14.fc8 ro > root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > initrd /test.img > title Fedora (2.6.26.3-14.fc8) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.3-14.fc8 ro > root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > initrd /initrd-2.6.26.3-14.fc8.img > > You your F10 kernel instead of the F8 one listed here. Make sure you > do it with the new motherboard. > > Mikkel > -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! > > > The easiest way, if you have access to the internet, is to use the rescue disk, "chtoot /mnt/sysimage" and then install a new kernel via yum (depending on what you have installed, you may need to remove a kernel before, by using "rpm -e kernel-....."). This is how I do in cases like this .... -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ
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