[lug] Fedora 8 on new hardware network booting problem

[David L. Anselmi]

Swavek Skret wrote:
> To get the network boot going, I prepared the initrd.img file by following
> the directions from
> http://www.dark.ca/2009/06/10/initrd-modules-and-tools

Any chance there's a tool to build your initrd from scratch?

In Debian there's a tool called update-initramfs that builds the initrd image.  It knows how to pack 
up all the modules you need based on what's running.  It's used whenever the kernel changes to make 
the appropriate initrd.img.

Dave