initrd

[Joel Hammer]

Still trying to get my new kernel (2.4.20) to work so I can use my new,
cheap palm pilot. This has involved about 8 to 10 hours so far. Gotta
love progress.

The hangup is initrd. I haven't come across any documentation I can
understand to make an initrd-linuxversion.gz file yet.

The man pages on mkinitrd are simply worthless to me.
The kernel how-to essentially says to read the man pages.
The step by step said to just rename the old initdrd file to the new
kernel number and go. I tried that, fixing up my lilo.conf appropriately,
and that didn't help either. The reboot just hangs when booting.

So, if someone can point me to a good source for using mkinitrd, I'd
appreciate it.

Joel