[20262] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.0.24: update_ws
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Fri Mar 29 23:37:40 2002
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU>
Date: 29 Mar 2002 23:37:38 -0500
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
[re my bug report on update_ws setting the wrong initrd in lilo.conf]
> Hi. This bug was fixed in 9.0.22 or so, but because the update from
> 9.0.19 used the "rpmupdate" binary from 9.0.19 and not from 9.0.24, you
> had to experience the bug one last time.
>
> (We do have various provisions for updating rpmupdate before performing
> an update, but it's a dicey equation, so we don't use those provisions
> often.)
I just ran "update_ws" as root to get updated to 9.0.26 from 9.0.24,
and guess what happened?
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-31smp
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-31.img
read-only
root=/dev/sda5
There is an initrd-2.4.9-31smp.img installed, but nothing in lilo.conf
references it.
