>>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 4:32 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
