On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:56:36 -0400 Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > > > I don't know as that should cause any ire, Aaron. I think whats > messing with him may be that he is trying to over-write an existing > one, and that's something I personally have never tried. Why? > Because I long ago wrote me a script to do all this, and at the time > I considered that I might want to revert to the older version with a > live session grub edit, the end result being that my script first > touches all those files to make sure they exist, rm's the .old > versions, then mv's the originals to .old versions. > > The actual line(s) that generates the initrd in my script is: > > echo now making a new initrd.$VER.img && \ > touch initrd-$VER.img && \ > rm -f initrd-$VER.img && \ > mkinitrd -f initrd-$VER.img $VER && \ > echo and copying it to /boot/initrd-$VER.img && \ > touch /boot/initrd-$VER.img.old && \ > rm -f /boot/initrd-$VER.img.old && \ > touch /boot/initrd-$VER.img \ > mv /boot/initrd-$VER.img /boot/initrd-$VER.img.old \ > cp initrd-$VER.img /boot/initrd-$VER.img && \ > > Where $VER is set at the top of the script to match that of the > Makefile, and the script is cd'd to $VER. > > I also use the \ rather liberally throughout my script such that if > there is an error at anyplace in the whole procedure from the make > bzImage stage on, it exits properly leaving the error message still > visible in that shells screen. I can do a 'time ./makeit' in that > screen, go away and do other things, having only to edit my grub.conf > and reboot if the compile succeeds. > > My script is a kludge, it's probably butt ugly to some, but it has > now built and installed every kernel I've run since the early 2.4 > days, probably 200+ successfull runs now, with no surprises like the > Makefiles have more than occasionally contained. Gene, Would you be willing to post this script with whatever instruction you think is necessary to use it? It sounds like a valuable resource, no matter how kludgy. It's hard to argue with success. :-) Thank you. >
