Re: How do I make an installation initrd.img for a new kernal?

[Barry Scott <barry scott onelan co uk>]

Brad Bonkoski wrote:
> man mkinitrd
> -B
Unless I'm missing something  I'll end up with an initrd.img that will 
boot the
system I run mkinitrd on. It will not have the contents that the 
initrd.img has on
the CDs.

I've looked inside the /boot/initrd.img and
images/pxeboot/initrd.img and they have massive differences
in files in the img.

Barry
> Barry Scott wrote:
> > I need up update the newwork install for FC4 so that it
> > supports new hardware (nVidia ethernet - forcedeth).
> >
> > The 2.6.17 kernel is fine in this case. But the initrd.gz that
> > is installed in /boot is nothing like the images/pxeboot/initrd.img
> > from the installation CD.
> >
> > I need to know how the images/pxeboot/initrd.img  was made
> > so that I can make a new one for the 2.6.17 kernel.
> >
> > Can anyone point in the right direction?
> >
> > Barry