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mkinitrd: Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules.

Name:mkinitrd Vendor:
Version:3.5.13 License:GPL
Release:1 URL:
Summary
Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd) images. These ramdisk images are often used to preload the block device modules (SCSI or RAID) needed to access the root filesystem. In other words, generic kernels can be built without drivers for any SCSI adapters which load the SCSI driver as a module. Since the kernel needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able to address the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used. The initial ramdisk is loaded by the operating system loader (normally LILO) and is available to the kernel as soon as the ramdisk is loaded. The ramdisk image loads the proper SCSI adapter and allows the kernel to mount the root filesystem. The mkinitrd program creates such a ramdisk using information found in the /etc/modules.conf file.

Arch: i386

Download:mkinitrd-3.5.13-1.i386.rpm
Build Date:Sat Oct 25 23:49:34 2003
Packager:
Size:111 KiB

Changelog

* Tue Sep 23 19:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj{%}redhat{*}com> 3.5.13-1
- fix getting modules from /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates
* Mon Sep 22 19:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj{%}redhat{*}com> 3.5.12-1
- argument checking and usage for /sbin/installkernel  (#103109)
* Wed Sep 3 19:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj{%}redhat{*}com> 3.5.11-1
- really only do grub configs on grub arches
- some usb mkinitrd fixes

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