which mkinitrd?

[Rick Stevens]

Douglas Frank wrote:
> Still plugging away at migrating my RH9 laptop 2.4->2.6.
> 
> Latest issue is mkinitrd: "make install" failed with this complaint:
> 
>   All of your loopback devices are in use.
>   mkinitrd failed
>   make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
>   make: *** [install] Error 2
> 
> And *then* I read that I'm supposed to upgrade mkinitrd.  Sigh, OK
> break out the FC3 CD's and copy mkinitrd-4.1.18-2's rpm.  Upgrade that,
> find a dependency on lvm2.  Well, bring that over too.  Try to install
> lvm2-2.00.25, find it has a dependency on... (drum roll)... kernel
> 2.6!!!
> 
> Which mkinitrd should I use?  Or is this not my real problem?

Install mkinitrd, lvm2 and the kernel at the same time:

	rpm -ivh mkinitrd*.rpm lvm2*.rpm kernel-whatever.i686.rpm

That will resolve the dependencies.
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