Paul Parkyn wrote: > Hi Carl, > > Thanks for your reply, your absolutely right, I suppose it means a complete > re-install. I am using grub for booting. I really have no idea how to setup > the initialising directory again.
No need to re-install. Throw in a rescue disk (floppy or CDROM). Get to the root directory and type: "mkdir initrd" Note that, with a rescue disk, the root of the filesystem might be in RAM. The normal root directory (the one on the hard drive that is used during normal boot-up) will probably be mounted in /mnt in rescue mode. I can't remember exactly... The linux/unix culture comes from a background where reboots are avoided if at all possible, and re-installs are rare indeed. Even a mostly munted installation can be got going again, if you know what needs to be done. Of course, a reboot might be faster... Note that, when I had your same problem with RH 7.2, I did an upgrade to RH7.3 in desperation, but it did not fix the problem. It got to the stage where I was reading through kernel source code to try and find the cause of the problem. I finally found the answer in some obscure web page somewhere. Cheers, Carl.
