[Mageia-dev] Unable to boot into kernel-3.1.3

Wed Nov 30 10:39:48 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Kira at 30/11/11 07:25 did gyre and gimble:
+> 在 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:39:13 +0800, Colin Guthrie
+> <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>寫道:
+>> Interesting... perhaps it's the initrd in use that broke it? Or maybe
+>> the kernel itself is busted. There will be a 3.1.4 coming very soon (as
+>> there was a brown-paper-bag USB borkage on the 3.1.3 kernel)
+>>
+>> If possible could you let me know what this command produces before you
+>> update to 3.1.4:
+>>
+>> /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display mkinitrd
+>>
+>>
+>> Cheers
+> 
+> output:
+> 
+> [root at Kira kira]:/usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display mkinitrd
+> 
+> mkinitrd - status is auto.
+> link currently points to /sbin/mkinitrd-mkinitrd
+> /sbin/mkinitrd-mkinitrd - pirority 100
+> Current ' best' version is sbin/mkinitrd-mkinitrd
+> 
+> ---
+> I will delay further update until this issue resolved..
+
+Could you try with the new kernel 3.1.4 as things are now?
+
+If that doesn't work, boot into the old working kernel, do a "urpmi
+dracut" and then recreate the initrd by doing the following as root:
+
+rm -f /boot/initrd-3.1.4-desktop-1.mga2.img
+/sbin/installkernel -N 3.1.4-desktop-1.mga2
+
+
+Then reboot into the new kernel and see if it works better.
+
+Col
+
+-- 
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