on 2/14/2008 2:25 AM William L. Maltby spake the following:
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 14:57 +1100, Steven Haigh wrote:
There are a number of differences in the initrd, although nothing that I
would call obvious as causing an issue..

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# gunzip -cd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.img |cpio -t |more
6097 blocks
bin
<snip> ...

sys
etc
#
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# gunzip -cd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.img |cpio -t |more
9679 blocks
bin
bin/dmraid
<snip>

sys
etc
#
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Do yourself a favor, as you'll probably have several more comparisons to
do.

When making the lists, sort the output, either piped to sort or make a
sorted version afterward, and use comm (man comm). You can see a nice
consolidated output, or select any combination of "only on file1", "only
on file2", ... both, etc. Makes detecting differences much faster.

<snip>

If grub had a "one time" next boot like LILO, I'd have some more
thoughts, but <*sigh*>

I have been hoping for that option for years. I have used other options like using sed or cp, but they are still susceptible to failures. All my new hardware has been HP's with the ILO feature, so I haven't had to worry about it for a while.

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