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Re: Where is Debian's initrd located?



Dan Anderson wrote:

> I'm trying to edit my LILO config so that I can run debian (which is on
> /dev/hde5).
> 
> Where is the initrd for debian located?
AFAIK the default woody kernel doesn't use initrd. if you need one for some
reason (or you want to compile a new kernel with initrd) you have to run
'mkinitrd' and add an entry in lilo.conf. remember though that once you've
added an initrd entry, you cannot boot from a kernel without one. (or am I
wrong...).

Bye

> 
> I currently have something like this for my debian entry:
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4
> label="Debian Linux"
> root=/dev/hde5
> initrd=/boot/???
> append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
> read-only
> 
> I can't find any initrd file in /boot under the debian partition.  Am I
> missing something?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 



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