On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 11:20:29PM -0400, Steven Pasternak wrote: > Hi! I have an LFS 6.0 system, and I was wondering, where could I get a > good mkinitrd script and tutorial. I haven't found an official project, > and each distro has their own. I tried copying the debian initrd-tools > over. I liked how it used cramfs, but the mkinitrd script makes many > calls to 'dpkg', which I don't have. I haven't had luck figuring out how > fedora/redhat's mkinitrd works or what it needs (/etc/conf.modules, > /etc/mkinitrd/modules, /etc/modules.conf, etc.). I eventually want to > add a bootsplash (needs an initrd), and make it a custom live rescue cd > (and just want to know how it all works ;-) ) Thanks!
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