Dear Gene Heskett, Once you wrote about "Re: Backup and recovery CD": GH> >And what's wrong with RedHat rescue mode, since you've mentioned GH> > it? :) GH> GH> I can report one problem with that, if he is booting from the GH> updated kernel that up2date might have installed. The updated GH> kernel did *not* come accompanied by an updated initrd, and the GH> updated kernel is useless for such booting because theres no GH> matching version numbered initrd he can load his scsi drivers from.
initrd, IIRC, never comes with the kernel. Instead, I beleive, it is generated by mkinitrd during the installation of the RPM. Anyway, the rescue mode is not even affected by these problem, since one is using a floppy or CD-ROM to go to rescue mode, not a broken installation. :) GH> I know, I let it install it on me, and it over-wrote my grub.conf GH> rendering the rest of my custom kernels inactive till I fixed that GH> by giving grub a custom command line that did point to a valid for GH> my system kernel, and used that to restore my grub.conf. I have GH> not allowed up2date to touch my kernel installs since that fiasco. GH> GH> A rather heated message to RH at the time was not replied to. GH> GH> There are many things up2date is good for, but putzing with your GH> kernel install isn't one of them. You might want to try a newer version. It work much better then it used to with in times of RedHat 6.x, if you know what I mean. :) -- Best regards, Leonid Mamtchenkov, RHCE System Administrator Francoudi & Stephanou Ltd.