[lug] 2.6.18 kernel and initrd

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Wed Sep 27 14:41:59 MDT 2006


Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:
> I'm running Debian testing, and have been trying to build a 2.6.18
> kernel (the standard distribution from kernel.org).  I create the initrd
> image using 
> 
>     mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18 2.6.18

I think you want mkinitramfs for 2.6.  If you have a 2.6 kernel already 
installed the update-initramfs command should take care of it.

Dave



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