Hosed my system. Knoppix won't fix it.

[Brett I. Holcomb]

initrd is the ram disk that can be used to boot the system.  In many cases 
the vendors build stuff as modules so it's not loaded when the kernel needs 
it.  To get around this they use the ram disk and put the system there, 
then run the kernel.  Eventually the ram disk goes away.  There are others 
who can give you a much better explanation.  In my case I boot from an all 
SCSI system so I have to have the drivers available since root is on the 
SCSI.  I build them into the kernel but I could make them modules and then 
use a ram disk.

Check out man mkinitrd - if it exists on your system.  It will make the ram 
disk for the kernel.  Then put the initrd line in /etc/lilo.conf.

Joel Hammer wrote:

> Thanks for the detailed reply on using knoppix.
> 
> However, my new kernel still won't boot although my old ones work. The
> old kernels have initrd parameters in lilo.conf, which I have never
> used before.  So, I need to go read about initrd for a while. Any hints
> about initrd gratefully appreciated.
> 
> Joel

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