Re: I blew it bigtime!

[Mike Chandler <mailmanmike@sbcglobal.net>]

On Tuesday 06 April 2004 05:06 am, Nicholas Pattison wrote:
Hi, thanks.
I am not passing any options to initrd, only doing this command as part of 
building the kernel:

fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image

I will check after work today about the version of initrd-tools.
I may have updated it doing an apt-get dist-upgrade...
because one day it worked, the next day it didn't!

Thanks for the help


> Two things:
>
> First:
>
> What options are you passing to mkinitrd?  Seems odd for it to be trying
> to access the floppy drive.
>
> Second:
>
> What version of initrd-tools are you running?  1.62 is the current build
> in the testing/unstable tree, I believe.  When I tried to use this
> version, it would spew out errors about modprobe and crap out on me.
> However, downloading initrd-tools off the latest stable tree
> (initrd-tools_0.1.32woody.5_all.deb) and installing it with dpkg, I
> could make a initrd just fine.  I remember googling my error, and there
> seemed to be a ton of errors related to the latest build of
> initrd-tools.  Some claimed that this was a buggy release of
> initrd-tools, but I don't know the current status of it.  (initrd-tools
> 1.62 works fine on my other computer, just not this one).
>
> ~~Nick