kernel.2166.athlon and initrd

[david walcroft]

Norman Gaywood wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:20:09AM +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> 
>>Up2date downloaded the kernel installed it but hung at the end and 
>>did'nt complete,on checking /boot there was'nt a 2166.nptl.img file
>>and no entry in grub.conf for the kernel.
>>So I removed the kernel and D/L from my mirror a new one installed
>>rpm -ivh and the same problem,so I used the command "mkinitrd /boot/
>>initrd-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl.img 2.4.22-1.2166.nptl" and it hung,then I
>>added 'strace' and below is the last few lines of a long output.
> 
> 
> It might be hanging on the umount as the last step of making the initrd.
> So you could be seeing:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109962
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497
> 
Looks like that does it not,well I do not dabble in that part of the 
system very often so I'll sit and wait for the upgrade.

  david