Bad initrd image with Fedora 10 update

Posted: March 4th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Fedora, Kernel, Linux | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Yet again, I seem to be getting a bad initrd image with a Kernel update. On boot, the system will respond with:

mount: cannot mount /dev/root on /sysroot

The solution, as stated in the previous post, is to boot into a known working Kernel, and re-build the initrd image. Create a backup of the original before you proceed, then apply this command within the /boot directory as root (with the correct Kernel version instead of the example below):

mkinitrd initrd-2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686.img 2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686

Now reboot and let it boot into the new Kernel. You should be good to go!