Error while try to upgrade initial ram disk

Ashish Sood · 11-08-2009, 01:33 AM

hi guys i m facing a problem while try to upgrade the initial ram disk
i got the following error

#mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd-'uname -r'.img 'uname -r'

Adding module scsi_wait_scan
WARNING: Couldn't open directory /tmp/initrd.rpd4f4/lib/modules/2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE: No such file or directory
FATAL: Could not open /tmp/initrd.rpd4f4/lib/modules/2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE/modules.dep.temp for writing: No such file or directory
"/sbin/depmod -a uname -r" failed.

btmiller · 11-08-2009, 11:59 AM

Not sure that this is a problem, but aren't the four single quotes (') around uname -r in your command supposed to be backticks (`)?

Ashish Sood · 11-09-2009, 07:28 AM

Thanks For reply ,
it was my fault i m using wrong syntax