Harry Moyes wrote :
It happily confirms that the 2.6.9-1.3 kernel installs correctly into
my
FC2 installation.
But no 2.6.9-1.3 option is offered in the boot menu.
After some puzzlement I tried installing the version from freshRPM's
using Synaptic. This fails as well, but has the good grace to error,
reporting that it is unable to generate an initrd, and reporting an
error relating to a MegaRAID controller
seems I have one of these
megaraid: found 0x101e:0x1960:bus 2:slot 4:func 0
scsi0:Found MegaRAID controller at 0x2285f000, IRQ:185
and that kernel does not like it.
Indeed I have no 2.6.9-1.3 initrd, which is clearly an issue, but
the silent loss of the error, and worse still the confirmation of
a correct install **when the update process clearly knew there was
an issue** since it did not add the 2.8.9 kernel to the boot menu
is seriously broken.
I have quite a few machines running FC2 that run yum nightly to keep up to
date, and they did install the latest kernel, and the output reported that
the initrd wouldn't be created because no megaraid module was to be found.
I haven't looked into this yet but either :
- The module/driver isn't included and this is a serious bug.
- The module has been renamed or support for those MegaRaid cards has been
moved into another module... this is a bug also, but the remedy is to add
more "glue" or some other non trivial mechanism to kernel updates.
...or I'm simply missing something ;-)
Matthias
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