On Wednesday 11 July 2001 07:58, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 July 2001 00:53, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> > > Rick:
> > >
> > > I haven't been following the thread.... do you need to know who to
> > > build an initrd file?
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> > I beleive that my settings from xconfig may not be proper at this time.
> > I will retry to set the configuration tomorrow. Marcus sent a earlier
> > post about initrd.sh. I will try mkinitrd.sh i2.4.6, that should give me
> > initrd-2.4.6.gz, I beleive that is the correct syntax. What I am not sure
> > about at this time is vmlinuz-2.4.6 as 2.4.2 has vmlinuz-2.4.2.modules.
> > Guess some faq is inorder here.
>
> Used to be things were pretty complicated in the module world. Everytime
> you make a new kernel, it was given a weird internal timestamp and your
> module directory had to have the same name.
>
> Now (and I think this is true of Caldera offerings) it's a little easier.
> uname -r should be the only name your module library has and that should
> be 2.4.6 for your 2.4.6 kernel.
>
> What I would do would be:
>
> 1) Make a copy of your 2.4.2 module library, to say:
> /lib/modules/2.4.2.sav 2) Go to your /usr/src/linux directory (which I
> assume now points to 2.4.6 source)
> 3) make modules; make modules_install
>
> and even if you are running under 2.4.2 at the time, the modules should go
> to /lib/modules/2.4.6
>
> And BTW, it doesn't matter what you call your kernel (you probably know
> this) or what you call the initrd file, they can be called anything as long
> as they are booted and called properly. That is, your grub load would
> point to the right kernel and the right initrd regardless of what they are
> called.
>
> I'm not that familiar with the mkinitrd.sh that Caldera has but your
> problem would be to get the 2.4.6 modules into the initrd file, not the
> 2.4.2, I would assume with mkinitrd you could point to the right library
> to do this. I read the man for mkinitrd and built my own file which wasn't
> very hard.
Thanks Bruce. Words from you and DEP and Les and so many others make this
life so muh easier. Have a great day. Will be in touch I am sure. I have just
compeleted the install setup of e_WorkStation 3.1 Release. I have a couple of
reboots to test the restart works ok. Starting tolook ok. Thiking later of
replacing KDE with xfce, but that will be down the road.
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