I've never had to make one with debian, nor have it ask for one. I've read that the only thing it does is load modules required at boot. However I compile filesystem modules into the kernel, and also add in support for the kernel autoloader. It's never complained about needing an initrd.img. See 'man initrd'.
By the way on the woody cd it normally boots a 2.2 kernel. This is the 'linux' option. You can use bf24 for a 2.4 kernel. When I make a kernel from source on debian I just do the standard make menuconfig make dep bzImage make modules && make modules_install There is also a 'kernel-package' package with scripts called make-kpkg that will do the above for you plus add versioning to your kernels and module directories. I've not needed it. Cory -----Original Message----- From: Rob Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:26 AM To: EUGLUG Subject: [Eug-lug]new kernel & initrd Today I installed Debian Woody from the bootable CD. That's the first time I used it and it went well. Definitely beats throwing away old floppies b/c of bad sectors when you format them. I apt-get installed a 2.4.x kernel so it would pull in any other utilities the 2.4.x series needed. It complained about me not having a initrd.img in my root partition, but installing the kernel put one there and I just had to add it to lilo. What is the initrd.img? When you compile a kernel from source, do you have to concern yourself with making one? How? Thanks, Rob _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
