Upon a 'make install' on a kernel source directory I think distributions should automagically build your initrd for you. I use Ubuntu mainly on x86 and for those boxen I installed debianutils, which provides /sbin/installkernel. This is the path and filename to the "distribution" script which the kernel Makefiles will run when you type try to build the install target. Fedora for example builds your all this shiny stuff for you too. I've modified Debian's installkernel script to do this for Ubuntu. It'd be nice to see Ubuntu ship with this script and with the below patch applied. Mind you, Debian ships this script in debianutils. I haven't run debian in a while so not sure if debian uses the same format as you do for their initrd. If so then this can go upstream. Just a small itch I had to scratch as I just apt-get dist-upgraded and Ubuntu replaced my installkernel with the new one and it wasn't there. --- /sbin/installkernel.old 2008-10-04 12:45:40.000000000 -0700 +++ /sbin/installkernel 2008-10-04 12:45:46.000000000 -0700 @@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ updatever config "$config" fi +mkinitramfs -o $dir/initrd.img-$ver $ver +update-grub + ## This is very far from existing practice in modern Debian installations ######################################################################## # if [ "$(basename $img)" = "vmlinux" ] && [ "$(id -u)" = "0" ] ; then # -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
