On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 17:16 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > 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. ---- I am probably flogging a dead horse here but the whole point of anaconda is to detect your hardware and install an OS that is compatible with your hardware - which is of course lost when you run the installer on one system and then copy the installation over to another...this is often a problem on Windows too. As for an F7 HowTo - I'm quite sure that information regarding hardware detection, modprobe.conf and initrd is out there and very little difference would be found between FC6 and F7 but those without the experience/skill sets to manage it would find it endlessly confusing. Case in point...I found a walk through for compiling the old megaraid modules on RHEL 4 on the Internet which worked fine on RHEL 4.0 but had to be adjusted when Red Hat shipped RHEL 4.1 or a number of adjustments had to be made for CentOS because their CentOS-4 installation CD used an i586 boot kernel instead of an i686 boot kernel. Even with walk the walk through and my noted changes for CentOS were so difficult that I only noticed 1 other person on the CentOS mail list that was capable of getting it accomplished. Short of above...re-install directly on the hardware you are going to be using and problems go away. -- Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
