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Re: Where is Debian's initrd located?



On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:13:24 -0400, Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> penned:
> 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?
> 
> 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
> 

Not all linux kernels use initrd.  RedHat does by default, I think, but
I don't think debian does.  Here's my extremely simple lilo.conf entry:

default=linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=linux
        read-only

-- 
monique



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