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Which kernel did it actually boot into?
-Connie Sieh
On Wed, 13 May 2009, Brent L. Bates wrote:
> I installed the lastest kernel:
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> kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.x86_64
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> and XFS module:
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> kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5-0.4-2.sl5.x86_64
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> on a SL5.3 system. After rebooting, the kernel didn't know anything about
> XFS, when my previous one still did. I saw Troy's note, so I uninstalled both
> the kernel and XFS module. I enabled the `sl-testing' repo and updated yum.
> I then proceeded to install both of the above packages again. I rebooted and
> the new kernel still didn't know anything about XFS. Shouldn't the XFS module
> been automatically included in the new `initrd' file? Did I do something out
> of order or wrong? I want to make sure this doesn't happen again.
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> I manually ran the `mkinitrd' command and now the system boots fine with
> the new kernel.
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> Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.)
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