Craig White wrote:
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.
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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.
Bullshit Craig! If I just reload F7 then I am stuck with 200 updates and
several days getting the whole thing running again.
All your above is about old Linux so you know NOTHING about F7.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
