I couldn't find mkinitrd in Gentoo either. I figured it was just me screwing up.
Glad to see it wasn't. I'll keep banging away... Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "HJ Hornbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 8:23 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Issues...Further to... > > Can anyone point me to "the frustrated moron's guide to building an > > initrd"? > > Usually, you don't build the image yourself. A program called > "mkinitrd" builds it for you, in the process automatically handling > dependency issues, writing a startup script, and so on. Rather > confusingly, there are two versions of the program out there, one for > Red Hat and one for Debian: > > http://www.rt.com/man/mkinitrd.8.html > http://factotum.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/dwww?type=man&location=/usr/share/man/m an8/mkinitrd.8.gz > > Ready for the punchline? I can't find mkinitrd in Gentoo. lvm-user > apparently has a program that makes initrd images for LVM machines, but > I don't know if it does general-purpose ones. > > So, you have two options. The easiest is to transport your kernel > image and installed modules to a Debian or Red Hat install, and use > their mkinitrd. Both programs should handle this easily, and the > Debian/Red Hat fluff shouldn't interfere with the rest of the boot. > > The other way is to use a HDD not on the Compaq controller as a root > partition. Copy over the data already stored on the Compaq array, except > for /usr and /var; the remainder should fit in a 100MB partition. Use > symlinks to connect the two. This way requires extra hardware, but > doesn't depend on having another Linux box. > > HJ Hornbeck > > > >
