Re: changing intrd

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Les Mikesell wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
I read the man initrd and it said to make a new file for use you do this:

CONFIGURATION
The /dev/initrd is a read-only block device assigned major number 1 and minor number 250. Typically /dev/initrd is owned by root.disk with mode 0400 (read access by root only). If the Linux system does not have /dev/initrd already created, it can be created with the following
      commands:

              mknod -m 400 /dev/initrd b 1 250
              chown root:disk /dev/initrd
Also, support for both "RAM disk" and "Initial RAM disk" (e.g. CON- FIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y ) support must be com- piled directly into the Linux kernel to use /dev/initrd. When using
      /dev/initrd, the RAM disk driver cannot be loaded as a module.


Well I looked for /dev/initrd in this computer and there is none! So I think the man page is wrong! Well this is it about for me. All the Google data is for Red Hat 6.

You don't need /dev/initrd - you need /boot/initrd-your-kernel-version.img as mentioned in grub. man mkinitrd will show the command to build a new one and the only special trick is that you need to put the necessary but missing 'alias' entries in /etc/modprobe.conf first so it will include your driver modules in the new image.

Well Les, I have no idea what Internet thing I have, no idea what the sound card is called. So I deleted the ones from this computer. But when mkintrd ran it said can't make it because it exists. So I deleted the 2 in /boot. Then ran it and said "no modules available for this kernel".

So guess I'm dead. we need a real F7 HowTo for this. It is now a catch 22 thing.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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