On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 06:31:14AM +0200, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> 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
So this doesn't run by itself? I ask because it puts the appropriate line in
/etc/lilo.conf. How is someone supposed to know that? I just commented that
line because I didn't know what else to do with it.
tom
>
> > 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
>
>
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