On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:31 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: > Florian Philipp wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: > >> My main question comes down to this: I am using the 'genkernel' package > >> to build & install the kernel and initrd image. Both show up in /boot. > >> How much can I rely on genkernel to build a valid initrd image? > > Try "genkernel menuconfig all" to check for a valid kernel config before > > genkernel builds it. Refer to genkernel's man-page for further options. > > Yes, I did that. I ran genkernel, and generated it all. The initrd just > doesn't seem to be working. > > > >> How can > >> I mount the initrd image to verify it has the modules, etc. and verify > >> it is a valid image? > > There is a wiki-entry about it: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Initramfs > > Ok, so I used zcat to decompress the image, and then cpio to extract the > data to a temporary folder. (The instructions on the wiki didn't work > for some reason...complaints about finding cpio and zcat complaining > about arguments). Any how... > > I snooped around the extracted files and was unable to find either the > qla2xxx module (or the qla2200 modules, or any modules for that matter) > or the qla2200 firmware. The firmware is on the hard drive (/dev/sda1 -> > /lib/firmward/qla2200_fw.bin), and so is the module - > /lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r3/kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2xxx.ko. Is > the initrd image invalid?? Or are they stored somehow in the files > non-obviously? > > How could I easily add them to the initrd image? (This is really my > first time playing with initrd images...) > > Thanks, > > Ben >
They are in lib/modules. I think it should work if you just copy the modules to their respective folder and add their names to the respective file in etc/modules. To create a initrd new initrd, use the following command: find . | cpio --quiet --dereference -o -H newc | gzip -9 >/boot/initrd
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