Boot fails after change of motherboard (using LVM)
Jeff Voskamp
javoskam at uwaterloo.ca
Thu Oct 12 16:21:41 UTC 2006
Rob Andrews wrote:
> On 12-Oct-2006 17:15.19 (BST), Jeff Voskamp wrote:
> > Boot the machine with the rescue CD, and get the postinstall and
> > preuninstall scripts using " rpm -q kernel --scripts".
> > Rerun them (preuninstall first) and you'll have a shiny new initrd which
> > should do the trick.
>
> You can get the same effect with the mkinitrd(8) tool.
>
> mkinitrd /boot/initrd-<version> <version>
>
> (where version is, for example, 2.6.18-1.2759.fc6)
>
True enough - it's actually called from new-kernel-pkg, but I was
worried about potential side effects.
Jeff
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