Jay Cliburn wrote:
Barry Scott wrote:
I need up update the network install for FC4 so that it
supports new hardware (nVidia ethernet - forcedeth).
The 2.6.17 kernel is fine in this case. But the initrd.gz that
is installed in /boot is nothing like the images/pxeboot/initrd.img
from the installation CD.
I need to know how the images/pxeboot/initrd.img was made
so that I can make a new one for the 2.6.17 kernel.
Can anyone point in the right direction?
Don't know about the pxeboot initrd, but to roll your own initrd, first
make sure you have a kernel/initrd combination that allows you to boot
into the machine in case the following causes problems.
Then save the existing initrd, and
mkinitrd -f --preload=module1 --preload=module2 --preload=moduleN \
initrd-<kernelversion>.img <kernelversion>
where <kernelversion> = `uname -r`
I realized after hitting send that my final "where..." statement could be
misleading. <kernelversion> should be what `uname -r` would return on the
target OS version, not necessarily the version you're running at the time you
issue mkinitrd.
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