Re: yaird and creating an initrd image
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 02:24:09PM -0500, John and Holly Klug wrote:
> I am using kernel 2.6.14-2-386 and yaird 0.0.12-8.
>
> It appears that yaird requires that one be running the kernel that is
> being targeted when creating an initrd image. This is because it gets
> the system configured release kernel name (uname -r) to generate paths.
>
> This means one cannot use a generic Linux bootcd (like Triinity or
> Knoppix) to create a boot drive, because the modules and possibly other
> items cannot be found.
>
> Also, there is a problem with using a drive other than the current boot
> drive to run yaird, because it says that the drive is busy, if it is
> mounted (/dev/sda? is busy message), which it would need to be in order
> to configure the new root boot image. I would like to be able to do
> chroot /newrootdrive, and then run yaird from the new point.
>
> Am I missing something, or is there no reasonable way to create a Debian
> boot cd that is capable of creating a new initrd image from Debian Linux
> and yaird? By the way, the bootcd package appears to require lilo, and
> I am using grub.
Why not use initramfs-tools?
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Chris.
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