initrd

[Joel Hammer]

Forget this initrd waste of time.
I read what was in initrd-linuxversion.gz. I just had to build in ide
support to my kernel and it worked.
What a waste of time and effort. 
Now, my palm still won't connect, but now at least /proc/bus/usb/devices
shows a driver for the palm (serial) and the visor module loads
automatically. Now, I have to figure out what the heck happened to my
/dev/pilot. The /dev directory on this machine seems to have a mind of its
own. I suppose another bit of progress I will have to try to get rid of.
Joel


Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 09:31:38PM -0400, 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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