<pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hi Frank,</font></pre><pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></pre><pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">On 24/05/12 14:08 UTC, <span style="white-space:normal">Frank Murphy</span> wrote:</font></pre>

<pre><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">&gt; # dracut initramfs-3.5.0-0.rc0.git3.1.fc18.x86_64 </span></pre><pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">&gt; 3.5.0-0.rc0.git3.1.fc18.x86_64
&gt; F: installkernel failed in module multipat
&gt;
&gt; # rpm -qa | grep multipath
&gt; device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.4.9-22.fc18.x86_64
&gt; device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-22.fc18.x86_64
</font></pre><pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></pre><pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I had the same problem, but just on my 32bit Rawhide. Indeed, those two packages (</font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">device-mapper-multipath and </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">device-mapper-multipath-libs</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">) were installed on the x86_64 Rawhide.</span></pre>

<pre><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">So, the solution/work-around is simple:</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"># rpm -e </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.4.9-22.fc18.x86_64 </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-22.fc18.x86_64</span></pre>

<pre><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"># dracut</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">That time, the initramfs should be created. Just check that it has been created. For instance:</span></pre>

<pre><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"># ls -l /boot/</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">initramfs-3.5.0-0.rc0.git3.1.fc18.x86_64.img</font></pre><pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>

</font></pre><pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Then, of course, you have to update the Grub2 configuration, by adding the following lines to /etc/grub2.cfg:</font></pre><pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">&lt;tab&gt;echo    &#39;Loading initial ramdisk ...&#39;
&lt;tab&gt;initrd  /initramfs-3.5.0-0.rc0.git3.1.fc18.x86_64.img
</font></pre><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Note that, if you do not have a dedicated /boot partition, you should add the /boot prefix in the above line.</font></div>

<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">That&#39;s basically it.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Regards</font></div>

<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Denis</font></div>