Ubuntu broken

[Le grand pinguin]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 06:29:58AM -0500, azz wrote:
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> I think you need to make an initrd.  Check to see if you have one first.
> Make sure that the version is the same as the one on your boot disk...
> 
> sudo mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r)

This will create an initrd image that's working with the current
kernel - and that's probably _not_ what you want for a newly
crafted kernel. Better to give mkinitrd the explicit version of
the newly created kernel [1].

> sudo ln -s /boot/initrd.img$(uname -r) /initrd.img

Hmm, i don't like that: i prefer to be able to look at an initrd image
and tell what kernel version it's supposed to go with. Why not 
add the neccessary initrd line with the real image name to grub's
menu.lst (or lilo.conf)?

But, more to the point, why use an initrd at all? Didn't the OP say that
he comiled IDE support into the kernel? For a custom kernel there's no
real need for an initrd - after all, all the neccessary stuff is in the
kernel allready.

 Cheers
   Ralf Mattes

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