Boot poster challenge
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Sun Nov 21 03:23:48 UTC 2004
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 09:47:33PM +0000, Harry Moyes wrote:
> After some puzzlement I tried installing the version from freshRPM's
> using Synaptic. This fails as well, but has the good grace to error,
> reporting that it is unable to generate an initrd, and reporting an
> error relating to a MegaRAID controller
>
> seems I have one of these
>
> megaraid: found 0x101e:0x1960:bus 2:slot 4:func 0
> scsi0:Found MegaRAID controller at 0x2285f000, IRQ:185
>
> and that kernel does not like it.
>
> Indeed I have no 2.6.9-1.3 initrd, which is clearly an issue, but
> the silent loss of the error, and worse still the confirmation of
> a correct install **when the update process clearly knew there was
> an issue** since it did not add the 2.8.9 kernel to the boot menu
> is seriously broken.
This is fixed in the -1.6 RPM in updates-testing.
(Which is due to move to updates-proper)
Dave
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