Re: cannot run /mnt//sbin/mkinitrd: No such file or directory

[Thomas Ribbrock <ribbrock nmrc ucc ie>]

Otis Gospodnetic writes:
> Hi,
> 
> My 100th attempt of the RedHat 4.2 install went well almoooost all the way.
> At the very end I got this error:
> 
>     "I cannot run /mnt//sbin/mkinitrd: No such file or directory"
> 
> This is RedHat 4.2 installation.  I looked, using ctrl-alt-F2, into the
> newly
> created Linux filesystem, and really, there was no such file.  No idea why.
> 
> Then I also tried putting the boot____ (what's the word, the thing that
> would

boot manager is the word... In the Linux worl usually LILO.


> boot the OS) on the Master Block, but that didn't work.  I tried the second
> option given to me, to put it in the some boot sector of another disk or
> something like that, and that didn't quite work either.
> I then rebooted, and of course RedHat did not boot.
> I also didn't have an option of booting one of 2 OSes I now have, more or
> less.
> The machine simple started loading my old OS, Win95
> 
> Anyhow, can anyone recognize that error:
>     "I cannot run /mnt//sbin/mkinitrd: No such file or directory" ?

Well, as you asked for the minimum of necessary packages for an
install as well, my first assumption would be that you missed one of
the vital ones. Unfortunately, I can't tell you which one is
containing mkinitrd, but I just found out that there is a new package
list at http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pkglist/rhl-i386.html

HTH,

Thomas
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