dracut fails to gen initramfs

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Jun 19 22:05:16 UTC 2012


On 06/20/2012 12:12 AM, JD wrote:
> Ed, my F16 was a fresh install - Full install!
> I did not ever create that frikin' directory.
> I have no idea what rpm created it. I never
> installed 64bit rpms manually.
> The reason I was trying to create the initramfs
> is because someone commented on the bug
> (bugzilla.redhat.com) that the problem (panic
> of kernel 3.3.8-1 at boot) may be caused by my
> lack of the initrd line in the menu of that kernel
> in grub.cfg. There was NO initramfs for 3.3.8-1
> in /boot. So, I was trying to create one, in order
> for the initrd line (which I was going to manually
> add) would make the kernel successfully boot.
> However, i read in another fedora forum, a user
> saying that he does not have the initramfs for the
> kernel he is booting, and it boots just fine.
>

You mean you chose to install "Everything"?  What made you do that?

I'm just curious at this point....

What is "ls -l /usr/lib64" showing?

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