On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 05:01:41PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > Summary : Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules. > Description : > Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd) > images. These ramdisk images are often used to preload the block > device modules (SCSI or RAID) needed to access the root filesystem. > > In other words, generic kernels can be built without drivers for any > SCSI adapters which load the SCSI driver as a module. Since the > kernel needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able to > address the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used. The initial > ramdisk is loaded by the operating system loader (normally LILO) and > is available to the kernel as soon as the ramdisk is loaded. The > ramdisk image loads the proper SCSI adapter and allows the kernel to > mount the root filesystem. The mkinitrd program creates such a > ramdisk using information found in the /etc/modules.conf file. The Description needs updating so it talks about initramfs, GRUB, and /etc/modprobe.conf instead of LILO and /etc/modules.conf. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list