missing /initrd-2.4.20-30.7.legacy.img after kernel upgrade

[Ivan Teliatnikov]

I have upgraded a number of RH8 and RH7.3 boxes (all running from IDE 
disks) to a new kernel using apt-get without any hustle. So far no 
problems. I wanted to start upgrading servers running of SCSI disks, 
but I noticed an unexpected feature.

Namely, file /initrd-2.4.20-30.7.legacy.img file was not 
created during the upgrade. 

The initrd is typically used for temporarily booting the hardware into a
state, that the real kernel vmlinuz can than take over and continue the
booting. For example - you can't read the kernel off the scsi hard disk
until you have a scsi driver loaded in the kernel.

My /etc/grub.conf points to non-existing image. Is this correct?

title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-30.7.legacy)
   root (hd0,0)
   kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-30.7.legacy ro root=/dev/hda9
   initrd /initrd-2.4.20-30.7.legacy.img

I can manually create this image running command
mkinitrd /initrd-2.4.20-30.7.legacy.img 2.4.20-30.7.legacy

Thank you in advance.

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