>>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at  4:32 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote: 
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> Where do I find initrd?  
> 
> A locate shows one in /boot, but it is a link to the executable, and one in 
> /dev.  But I am unable to view the contents of /dev/initrd to determine if 
> that's the one I should be sending you.  All other occurrences of initrd, as 
> shown by locate, all appear to be source, or man pages, etc. 

It would be the one in /boot.  It will have a name similar to 
/boot/initrd-2.6.5-7.286-s390x and should be a little less than 2MB in size.  
It's not an executable, it's a compressed image of an ext2 file system that 
gets loaded into real storage during the boot process.


Mark

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