Bugzilla – Bug 444804
kernel install failed while mkinitrd
Last modified: 2009-02-02 19:03:23 UTC
Displayed output was: Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-2-pae Initrd image: /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-2-pae Root device: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-HTS541010G9SA00_MP2ZX0XLGTRZWS-part1 (/dev/sda1) (mounted on / as ext2) Kernel Modules: hwmon thermal_sys processor thermal ide-core piix dock scsi_mod libata ahci ata_piix ata_generic ide-pci-generic fan edd mbcache ext2 crc-t10dif sd_mod usbcore ohci-hcd uhci-hcd ehci-hcd ff-memless hid usbhid Features: block usb resume.userspace resume.kernel 23623 blocks Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz.install Initrd image: /boot/initrd.install Kernel Modules: <not available> Could not find map /boot/System.map, please specify a correct file with -M. This was at the end of a network install (http://en.opensuse.org/Network_Install). The system was upgraded from openSUSE 11.0. In the installation system I see: inst-sys:~ # ls -l /boot/System.map* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1098006 11. Nov 19:21 /boot/System.map-2.6.27.5-2-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1099170 11. Nov 20:45 /boot/System.map-2.6.27.5-2-pae I've installed kernel-default-extra-2.6.27.5-2.2, kernel-default-2.6.27.5-2.2 and kernel-default-base-2.6.27.5-2.2 after the above error occurred.
I have no idea what /boot/vmlinuz.install and /boot/initrd.install is. And so does mkinitrd. Maybe you should delete them and try again?
When was the output displayed? The kernel post script should call 'mkinitrd' with the right parameters, i.e. only for the given kernel and not for all kernels. Or which part of YaST did call 'mkinitrd'? It's a bit unclear to me ...
No response for more than one week.
Sorry. I had been on vacation and missed the bugzilla mails. /boot/vmlinuz.install and /boot/initrd.install are files used for a network installation. I've copied them there to perform a "network install" as described at http://en.opensuse.org/Network_Install Unfortunately I can't reproduce the issue any longer.