[ale] Gentoo Linux: initrd

Michael Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Fri Aug 30 09:49:52 EDT 2002


On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 17:56, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> Hey Ya'll,
> 
>   I'm almost finished with my first Gentoo Linux install, trying to put some more pep into several aging K6-II/500 machines.
> 
> I'm completed the kernel and module compile, but I still need to make a initrd and setup grub (oh, were forth art thou LILO?) before I can ever reboot the system.
> 
> Does Gentoo have a handy utility to create/setup the initrd? (like mk_initrd in SuSE)

Ordinarily I wouldn't expect you to need this.  Since the whole point of
gentoo is to customize your install for you exact hardware, I would
expect that your kernel would have any devices required for boot in it. 
initrd is only needed for the "one size fits all" type of kernels used
by normal distributions.

Is there a particular reason you left some essential module out of your
kernel?

--Michael


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