Compiled kernel, now how do I do initrd image

Brett I. Holcomb brettholcomb
Mon May 17 11:43:17 PDT 2004


Check man mkinitrd.

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:17:24 -0500
kbb0927 at cs.com wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> I have compiled the 2.4.20 kernel for RH 8. I have copied the bzImage
> to /boot and named it vmlinuz-2.4.20-1.8.0. I have added this to
> menu.lst in /boot/grub (RH 8 uses grub), but I need to create
> initrd-2.4.20-1.img Do I run mkintrd? And if so, what is the syntax to
> create the above file? Yes, I have lilo in /sbin/lilo. Do I need to
> worry about System.map?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Keith B.


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