[lug] Fedora 8 on new hardware network booting problem

[Swavek Skret]

Dave,

There is a Fedora tool called mkinitrd but supposedly it is buggy in Fedora
8 I read. This is why I chose manual approach. Something to try.

Thanks,
Swavek

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:41 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us>wrote:

> 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
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