Re: Ready-made initrd setup?
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Alan Chandler wrote:
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> On Friday 29 November 2002 1:37 pm, Kai Großjohann wrote:
> > I've read the howto on initrd, and it looks fascinating. But it also
> > looks intimidating to set it all up from scratch. So maybe someone
> > else has done it already?
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> > I'm using sarge and I'd like to use initrd to be able to boot the
> > same kernel on different hardware. So, for example, I don't need to
> > compile in both ide and scsi support because some machines boot from
> > one, some from the other.
> >
> > I hear good stuff about the hw detection facilities in Knoppix, could
> > they be pilfered for my purpose?
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> Just look at the standard debian kernels + the initrd-tools package. then
> look at mkinitrd command.
See also man make-kpkg and option --initrd:
--initrd
If make-kpkg is generating a kernel-image package, perform any actions necessary for a kernel loaded
using initrd. This may include extra dependencies, and modifications to maintainer scripts. It has
no effect when make-kpkg is not making a kernel-image package. The same effect can be achieved by
setting the environment variable INITRD to any non empty value. To avoid a warning at install time,
please read kernel-img.conf(5), and add a warn_initrd directive in that file.
Oliver
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