From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux; X11; en_US) (KHTML, like Gecko) Description of problem: I installed 1.649 and rebooted and kernel could not mount scsi disk and consequently could not find modules directory and kept looking for them under /lib/modxxx.ko etc. In the config file there is only one difference: in 649: CONFIG_SCSI_INITIO=m whereas in 1.643 this does not exist. Does one have to add a module to modprobe.conf? how? If this is the case mkinitrd is not recognizing it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9smp-1.649 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install 1.649spm onto a scsi boot disk system 2. reboot 3. Additional info:
are you running a current mkinitrd ? It sounds like the initrd wasn't created properly at install time. The SCSI_INITIO change shouldnt affect you unless you actually have one of those controllers. This looks more like an mkinitrd bug to me.
I am running mkinitrd-4.1.18-2, latest in devel. I did even recreate the initrd with the same result. I agree abouit mkinitrd. Please reassign.
What version of gawk do you have installed?
gawk-3.1.3-9
Can you provide the output of /sbin/mkinitrd -v -f /tmp/initrd.out $(uname -r) and cat /proc/modprobe.conf
Created attachment 106046 [details] initrd.out file
Created attachment 106047 [details] modprobe.conf file
I can't do uname -r with 1.649 since I can't boot into it. What I have not shows: 2.6.9-1.643smp
I need the output of the mkinitrd command, not the actual file... Oops, sorry about the lack of clarity there
Created attachment 106048 [details] initrd image
This looks sane... exactly what error messages do you get on rebooting? And can you remove quiet from your boot params to get the more verbose output?
I do not have quite as boot param...like to see what is happenning. Well, things start loading fine until we get to loading the modules. It tries to load the mptbase and sais it cannot find it in: ./lib/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/ i.e. 2.6.9-1.643smp is missing from all module paths! Also, the size of the image is smaller than 1.643: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 515409 Oct 26 10:03 initrd-2.6.9-1.643smp.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 301922 Nov 1 14:59 initrd-2.6.9-1.649smp.img
I did it again and actually none of the path shows up i.e. /xxxx.ko is not found etc. Do you have some older version (>15) that I can try to see?
Do you have /usr/bin/install installed? What package is it from? If not, what version of coreutils do you have installed?
You got me! It was not install but "strip". I had problems building another rpm with strip and assigned it to true instead and forgot to change it back. I am very very sorry.