? /grub/splash.xpm.gz ? /initrd/2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.img

[Ed Greshko]

ron wrote:
> ron wrote:
> 
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I managed to wipe out my /boot
>> directory while trying to back it up to
>>> cd. I reinstalled the kernel and grub
>> files but have no:
>>>
>>> /grub/splash.xpm.gz
>>>
>>> or:
>>>
>>> /initrd/2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.img
>>>
>>> Where can i find these?
>>>
>>> What is ?:
>>>
>>> /initrd/2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.img
> 
> Ed Greshko wrote:
> 
>> initrd=Initial Ram Disk
>>
>> You'll need to "roll your own" with
>> mkinitrd.  See "man mkinitrd".
>> As for the splash screen...that is in
>> the fedora-logos rpm.  You can
>> extract it from there.
> 
> Ed,
> 
> Thank you for your help. I got this far:
> 
> [root at corefive ~]# mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5smp.img
> 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5smp
> 
> No dep file found for kernel 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5smp
> 
> What am I missing?

Well, you may be missing a lot....as in you may have deleted more than
you've expected.

When I do mkinitrd I normally do "mkinitrd imagename `uname -r` to make
sure I have the correct name for the running kernel.

What the error is telling you is that
/lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2122_FC5smp/modules.dep cannot be found.  You need
to make sure the kernel name is correct.

FWIW, /sbin/mkinitrd is a script.  Makes it easier to understand what it
is doing.

Ed


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