*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 6/30/2003 at 12:29 PM Robert P. J. Day wrote: >On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, shane c branch wrote: > >> Does the mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21.img 2.4.21 command needs to be >issued >> from inside the kernel source directory as well? > >not that i know of. all that's necessary is that > >1) you must have done a "make modules_install" so that there is a > corresponding /lib/modules directory with that version number. > >2) you can call the "initrd" file anything you want, as long as it > matches the entry you put in /etc/grub.conf > >rday > >p.s. or you can just be a stud and move on up to the 2.5.7x kernels. :-) >which really don't require any extra processing from what you'd do with >the 2.4 kernels. > > >-- > >Robert P. J. Day >Eno River Technologies >Unix, Linux and Open Source training >Waterloo, Ontario > >www.enoriver.com > hmmm. Okay, I tried the command, and got the following error: # mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21.img 2.4.21 no module ips found for kernel 2.4.21 although I did use the modules_install line when i did the build: # make dep clean; make bzImage modules modules_install regards, shane
