Heres a dumb one - where does intitrd `img' come from

[Jim Wildman]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:

> Where does the /boot/initrd*.img come from.
> 
> I never thought to much about that file other than seeing it in lilo
> or grub.
> 
> rpm -qf doesn't know about it.  Its built during a kernel install I
> think but just now having built a kernel (not yet installed) I don't
> find that under the `build' directory.
> 
> There is 1012MB of data there though... yikes.  Is that normal?
> 

man mkinitrd

It is run as part of the kernel installation process.

rpm -q --scripts kernel | grep mkinitrd

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