On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 09:47, James Wilkinson wrote: > Juan L. Pastor asked: > > Where does the /boot/initrd-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom.img file and the line > > initrd /initrd-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom.img > > enter in this story? Are they not supposed to make the translation of > > the label name into the real filesystem? > > They're made by mkinitrd. > > As the name suggests, they need to be custom-made for the kernel you're > running. Is that really the kernel you're running? (Any reason why > you're not on 2.8.1?) Otherwise they won't work... [jlpastor@kalimotxo jlpastor]$ ll /boot/ total 5304 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46375 May 8 15:21 config-2.6.5-1.358 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 31 09:19 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 289645 Aug 22 20:08 initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 197261 Aug 31 09:19 initrd-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom.img drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Aug 22 22:06 lost+found lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Aug 31 09:19 System.map -> System.map-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 239593 May 8 15:21 System.map-2.6.5-1.358 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 702528 Aug 31 09:19 System.map-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 658171 Aug 25 09:07 System.map-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom.old lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Aug 31 09:19 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1199031 May 8 15:21 vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1065172 Aug 31 09:19 vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 984930 Aug 25 09:07 vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom.old [jlpastor@kalimotxo jlpastor]$ uname -a Linux kalimotxo.euskal.net 2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom #1 Tue Aug 31 08:50:03 CEST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux They were created when I recompiled the kernel, that's why I don't understand that it doesn't translate the LABEL=/ into /dev/hdc2, like 2.6.5-1.358 kernel. I'm not working with 2.8.1 kernel yet because I didn't have time to download it. Juan -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
