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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom
From:       Pascal Cavy <pascal () vmfacility ! fr>
Date:       2003-04-01 18:20:12
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Le Mardi 1 Avril 2003 19:20, Buchan Milne a écrit :
> Pascal Cavy wrote:
> > After migration from MDK 7.2 to MDK 9.1, the installer left a new system
> > without an initrd for 2.4.21-0.13mdk, thus I cannot boot it anymore.
> >
> > I was wondering if it is possible to rebuild my initrd from the 9.1
>
> rescue CD.
>
> > I tried the following but to no avail (maybe because of using the freshly
> > installed system by means of a chroot on /mnt) :
> >
> > boot rescue cd1
> > mount all FS on /mnt
> > go to console
> > chroot /mnt
> >
> >
> > has anyone a key of how to do this under rescue ?
>
> Ask gc to add an option to the menu ;-)?
>
> Buchan

yes an option in the rescue menu could be a plus for newbies...

anyway now it is too late, I performed a clean install.

maybe if I have time I'll try again to migrate a 7.2 to 9.1 on vmware to see 
if it is reproducable.

-- 
Pascal Cavy - VMF
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Running  6:24,  4 users,  load average: 0.31, 0.20, 0.24
(gcc version 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk))
Kernel Linux version 2.4.21-0.13mdkenterprise



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