building initrd into kernel package

John Hornbeck hornbeck at freeshell.org
Thu Oct 21 16:18:57 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 16:18 +0200, Julien Poissonnier wrote:
> just run make-kpkg with the --initrd option
> The initrd will be build with the options in /etc/mkinitrd/
> 
Hey, thanks.  I did not know that was a option, guess if I would have
read the manual :)
John
> John Hornbeck wrote:
> > I have built some inotify kernel's to be used but I have been having to
> > build the initrd manually.  Is there a way to build the initrd to be
> > part of the kernel package that way I might offer these kernel's to
> > people who would like to use them, without them having to manually build
> > the initrd and than manually update grub?  I know I am just missing a
> > step or something.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> 
> 




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