mkinitrd <-- creates an initrd image for a given kernel.
Usually only needed by systems running SCSI to preload the necessary scsi
modules so the kernel knows how to use the hardware to load up.
On my IDE systems I've had to make sure that ext3 was compiled into the kernel
(not as a module) to get new kernels to load. I don't use initrd images on
those systems.
> Please send your error to the list as well and thanks for grub.conf. I
> just went through this sort of problem not two hours ago and it's like
> because you need an initrd file. I can't help you here (i have mdk8.2's
> and rh7.3's and suse8.0's in a half hour) but i'm sure you can search
> for initrd-2.4.19 on www.google.com/linux and find something. I had the
> error from mandrake's grub config because mandrake didn't want to
> acknowledge have red hat on the same machine. I wonder what suse will
> do.
>
> On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 19:44, Aaron Clark wrote:
> > I'm having some slight issues with booting to my newly compiled 2.4.19
> > kernel. I was following the the documentation at
> > http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Compiling_Kernels/20_Steps_to_a_New_Kernel_with_Grub.html. In the doc it says to copy over the bzImage as vmlinux-2.4.19, so I did.When I added the new entry into grub.conf I noticed that I didn't have a vmlinuz-<version> and initrd-<version> in /boot. These must be necessary as I can't boot to 2.4.19.
> >
> > What did I hose-up on?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Aaron
> > ----
> >
>
> > # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> > #
> > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
> > # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
> > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
> > # root (hd0,2)
> > # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
> > # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
> > #boot=/dev/hda
> > default=2
> > timeout=10
> > splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.19)
> > root (hd0,2)
> > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19 ro root=/dev/hda3
> > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-10)
> > root (hd0,2)
> > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-10 ro root=/dev/hda3
> > initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-10.img
> > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-5)
> > root (hd0,2)
> > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-5 ro root=/dev/hda3
> > initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-5.img
> > title XP
> > rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> > chainloader +1
> > ----
> >
>
> > total 14736
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 10 19:05 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Sep 10 19:13 ..
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5824 Jun 24 2001 boot.b
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Jun 24 2001 chain.b
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40600 Aug 7 09:02 config-2.4.18-10
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39947 Apr 18 04:45 config-2.4.18-3
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40580 Jun 10 12:39 config-2.4.18-5
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 1 11:25 grub
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 121915 Sep 1 11:25 initrd-2.4.18-10.img
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 124745 Aug 20 10:27 initrd-2.4.18-3.img
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 128427 Aug 20 21:39 initrd-2.4.18-5.img
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 473 Aug 20 10:27 kernel.h
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23108 Jun 24 2001 message
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Sep 1 11:24 module-info -> module-info-2.4.18-10
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14431 Aug 7 09:02 module-info-2.4.18-10
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14431 Apr 18 04:45 module-info-2.4.18-3
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14431 Jun 10 12:39 module-info-2.4.18-5
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640 Jun 24 2001 os2_d.b
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Sep 1 11:24 System.map -> System.map-2.4.18-10
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 476852 Aug 7 09:02 System.map-2.4.18-10
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 465966 Apr 18 04:45 System.map-2.4.18-3
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 476431 Jun 10 12:39 System.map-2.4.18-5
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 458816 Sep 10 19:05 System.map-2.4.19
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2872539 Aug 7 09:02 vmlinux-2.4.18-10
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2835238 Apr 18 04:45 vmlinux-2.4.18-3
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2872048 Jun 10 12:39 vmlinux-2.4.18-5
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 826128 Sep 10 19:22 vmlinux-2.4.19
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Sep 1 11:24 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.4.18-10
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1040447 Aug 7 09:02 vmlinuz-2.4.18-10
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1030147 Apr 18 04:45 vmlinuz-2.4.18-3
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1039759 Jun 10 12:39 vmlinuz-2.4.18-5
> --
> Bryce Chidester
> Network Administrator
> CoBryce Communications
> Bryce AT BryceCo DOT Net
> http://www.bryceco.net
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