Hello Everybody,
I am writing on this mailing because I have got a problem to understand
how anaconda works with initrd.
Let me explain my problem.
I build a kernel package with rpmbuild using a custom SPEC file. This
kernel uses an initrd.img file in order to boot correctely. I decided to
use this kernel for creating an automatic installer for Fedora Core 6
using anaconda.
I built my CD sucessfully and tried to boot on it. Anaconda starts
sucessfully and the installation is OK.
After the installation, the system reboots and at this moment I see that
the initrd line is not added in GRUB. If I try to boot, the system
restarts after saying that it is impossible to open the initial console.
After investigation, I found that the initrd file was not present on the
destination system and I undserstood why.
In my RPM, I have a postinst directive which says to create the initrd
file and update the GRUB entry using commands new-kernel-pkg and
mkinitrd. But on the stage2 file system these commands are not present.
But, on a Fedora Default Install, we have a custom with an initrd.img
file. So the thing I would want to understand is how and when anaconda
creates the initrd file and how and when the GRUB entry is updated
because I didn't find out where was done these operations.
Thank you for your answers
Best Regards,
Olivier BONHOMME
