Fedora Core 3: FEDORA-2005-654 Critical Mkinitrd Boot Issue Resolution

Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd)

images. These ramdisk images are often used to preload the block

device modules (SCSI or RAID) needed to access the root filesystem. In

other words, generic kernels can be built without drivers for any SCSI

adapters which load the SCSI driver as a module. Since the kernel

needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able to address

the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used. The initial ramdisk is

loaded by the operating system loader (normally LILO) and is available

to the kernel as soon as the ramdisk is loaded. The ramdisk image

loads the proper SCSI adapter and allows the kernel to mount the root

filesystem. The mkinitrd program creates such a ramdisk using

information found in the /etc/modules.conf file.

This update should fix the issue a number of people saw

after the recent kernel update where various modules would

fail to load during boot, making systems unbootable.

After updating this package, remove, and reinstall the

recent kernel update, and the initrd will be recreated

correctly.

- Make nash check pids returned from wait*() (#145660)

b2b1dbd6e34c1179f17a44610da4c6d6 SRPMS/mkinitrd-4.1.18.1-1.src.rpm

425fcca8b6181b20c51d89a3e7619a5b x86_64/mkinitrd-4.1.18.1-1.x86_64.rpm

2800efeea4faefc62f9f7e500ab76716

x86_64/debug/mkinitrd-debuginfo-4.1.18.1-1.x86_64.rpm

9306503189fb68006c94d44377ce9014 i386/mkinitrd-4.1.18.1-1.i386.rpm

cd6b154f89f4ca6c9515c5a478914ef6 i386/debug/mkinitrd-debuginfo-4.1.18.1-1.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

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