thanks. i suppose i meant to ask, why wasn't this file ever needed on my lilo installed linux machines? i looked in the /boot of a 7.1 box i have that uses lilo, and initrd is not present.
It's not actually anything to do with grub vs lilo -- you'll see that the kernel line in grub.conf has something like
root=LABEL=/
on the end of it and this somewhat forces the use of an initial ramdisk. Or so someone on this group said it did a while ago. And I believe them :-) But if anyone knows how that stuff in linuxrc in the initrd works, I'd be more than happy to see an explanation. And if no one does I guess I'll have to find out for myself :-(
jch
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