initrd

[Andrew Mathews]

Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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
> 
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Use as "mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-4.img 2.4.20" with the second 
reference to to your modules tree such as /lib/modules/2.4.20. Remember 
to add it to your lilo.conf and rerun lilo before rebooting.

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Andrew Mathews
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