On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Tom Berger wrote:
> Hi there!
> I just reinstalled the old -19 version to see if this hangs, too. Doing this I
> remarked that *my* kernel-27 package doesn't have initrd (which is part of
> -19).
Kernel 19 doesn't contain the initrd either - it's just auto-generated at
installation time.
You can do the same for kernel-27 by running
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.9-27mdk 2.2.9-27mdk
> Is it just me? And what is this file intended to do anyway?
It's needed if your root filesystem can't be accessed without loading
modules (i.e. you're on an SCSI only system and the SCSI driver is
compiled as a module).
LLaP
bero
