Re: Where is the mkinitrd command ?

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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).

Did you check the Makefile, which invoked the build process?

Thanks,
     --Pradeep
>
> 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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