!!!!First If I am on bad track for asking this question in this list then I am really sorry. Problem: I have builded new 2.6.8 kernel, and I wanted to create initrd so I used mkinird command with -o options and 2.6.8-custom mod version. mkinitrd doesn't creates image , but when i use option to leave temporary files in /tmp/mkinitrd.xxxx and do copy of that image to /boot dir , and setup menu.list for grub it works all well, kernel boots, everything works fine. So why doesn't mkinitrd creates proper image with -o option i specified dir? I run following Debian 3.1 2.6.8 (debian kernel) all other stuff from default stable distro 3.1 tnx. vnikola. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/