Re: Where is the mkinitrd command ?

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Can you elaborate the question with  more details ....


On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Mark Ryden <markryde@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
Sorry, it seems to me that I was misunderstood.

I also made that grep and got these results.
This does not explain a simple question:
when running "make modules_install", where is the invokation of
mkinitrd ? I cannot find it in the kernel tree (and Markus answer does
not show it either).

Any idea? this question really puzzles me !
Rgs,
Mark


On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Markus Heidelberg
<markus.heidelberg@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Mark Ryden, 30.12.2008:
>> Hello,
>>   When I run "make install" it calls, among other things, the "mkinitrd" script.
>>
>> I tried to grep in the latest kernel tree for this call and could not find it.
>
> $ git grep -i mkinitrd
>
> Documentation/Changes:118:Mkinitrd
> Documentation/Changes:122:mkinitrd be upgraded.
> Documentation/Changes:310:Mkinitrd
> Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt:51:   loop mounts of tmpfs files do work, so mkinitrd shipped by most
> Documentation/ia64/xen.txt:45:    # mkinitrd -f /boot/efi/efi/redhat/initrd-2.6.18.8-xen.img \
> Documentation/ia64/xen.txt:150:    # mkinitrd -f /boot/efi/efi/redhat/initrd-2.6-pv_ops-xenU.img \
> Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt:412:          might cause problems with the /sbin/mkinitrd program and/or
>
> Documentation/Changes line 312:
> o  <ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/pub/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/>
>
> But that link doesn't work. You can use the package from you linux
> distribution anyway.
>
> Markus
>
>

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