Re: [[newbie] kernel upgrade mkinitrd for scsi]

2000-12-16 Thread Altoine Barker

As Johnny five would say, "More input!"

"How" are you upgrading?

rpm -i
or
rpm -u

because if it is "-u" that is the reason you are having problems. You have
to do an "-i" install if you want the kernel to work.

Cheers
-- Al


Victor Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to upgrade my current  2.2.15-4mdksecure kernel to
2.4.0-0.13mdk rpm, and whenever I do a mkinitrd for an initrdx.xx.x.img(

for my scsi drive, etc.) , I get an error:

#mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.0-0.13.img 2.4.0-0.13mdk
error: -d option is not supported on Linux
error: -d option is not supported on Linux
Error creating temporaries.  Try again

I upgraded (in order) mkinitrd, SysVinit, initscripts, kernel, and
kernel-docs via rpm
before this with no problem. The strange thing is that I got the same
error trying to do mkinitrd on another machine earlier today.

Am I using the wrong command syntax?

Any help appreciated,

Victor







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Re: [[newbie] kernel upgrade mkinitrd for scsi]

2000-12-16 Thread Victor Richardson

Wow! Thanks for replying, this is beginning to make some sense. Actually, I used 
KPackage w/
"Upgrade", "Replace Packages", and "Check Dependancies" checked. I was following the
MandrakeUser.org directions and realized that I sould have done it from a shell right 
after
pressing the Kpackage "Install" button because I couldn't be sure what was really 
happening.
Anyway, I decided to finish using Kpackage for consistency (my mistake).

What do you think is my best course of action from here: 1) Uninstall rpm's and do it 
again (rpm
-ivh?)from a shell or prompt, 2) re-install (w/o uninstall) from a shell or prompt, 3) 
Compile
another kernel from source?

I've compiled a kernel once before, 6 months ago,  and don't remember it being all 
that difficult
and failry quick (30-45 minutes).

Victor

Altoine Barker wrote:

 As Johnny five would say, "More input!"

 "How" are you upgrading?

 rpm -i
 or
 rpm -u

 because if it is "-u" that is the reason you are having problems. You have
 to do an "-i" install if you want the kernel to work.

 Cheers
 -- Al

 Victor Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I am trying to upgrade my current  2.2.15-4mdksecure kernel to
 2.4.0-0.13mdk rpm, and whenever I do a mkinitrd for an initrdx.xx.x.img(

 for my scsi drive, etc.) , I get an error:

 #mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.0-0.13.img 2.4.0-0.13mdk
 error: -d option is not supported on Linux
 error: -d option is not supported on Linux
 Error creating temporaries.  Try again

 I upgraded (in order) mkinitrd, SysVinit, initscripts, kernel, and
 kernel-docs via rpm
 before this with no problem. The strange thing is that I got the same
 error trying to do mkinitrd on another machine earlier today.

 Am I using the wrong command syntax?

 Any help appreciated,

 Victor

 
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