updated Hoary kernel doesn't boot?

Harry Wert hwert at earthlink.net
Sat Aug 20 22:51:36 UTC 2005


volvoguy wrote:

>On 8/20/05, Renaud Vernet <renaud.vernet at cern.ch> wrote:
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>>I am not sure, but I read somewhere that the reiserfs support is one of
>>the options that absolutely require an initrd.
>>Check if you have the new initrd.img-X.X.X in /boot.
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>I just checked and I do have a new initrd.img in /boot. The exact
>error message I'm getting is "cannot mount selected filetype". Reiser
>hasn't ever caused me any trouble before. I'm surprised that a
>security update on a stable system could bring the whole thing to it's
>knees. :-( I'm now totally Ubuntu-less.
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I had to revert to my earlier kernel as I had the same problem. 
Fortunately, I never upgrade without keeping a working kernel in Grub 
for just this reason. FWIW

Harry
Physicist
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