On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 20:14, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 19:53, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 19:42, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 19:16, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > > I would have liked to try a 2.6 kernel to see if that would help, but > > > > never managed to get an initrd.img built that would actually boot.I > > > > learnt loads about how initrd actually works, and the like, but never > > > > quite enough ): > > > > > > I'd appreciate being told a few references because I want to go down that > > > track too. > > > > chris, on gentoo the genkernel program produces a kernel and matching > > initrd. you can use your own .config. it even outputs the exact grub > > config stanza at the end, just copy and paste into grub. > Thanks, but I know that, and it works very well. Gentoo is so convenient it > hides the nitty-gritty which I want to know about.
OK I just didn't know you were a genkernel user, I am on some machines and not others. I can only suggest less `which genkernel` (which I actually just did but it was not particularly illuminating, no doubt you could trace through the code and see what it does. it seems to call /usr/share/genkernel/gen_initrd.sh)
