mkinitrd does nothing

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 18/07/06 Michael P. Soulier said:

> I built and installed a new kernel, and I want to build an initrd for it. So,
> as a normal user, I run...
> 
> fakeroot mkinitrd -o initrd-2.6.17custom1.img 2.6.17custom1
> 
> No errors, zero return value. But, it produces nothing.

Ah. Apparently -o won't take a relative path, and it doesn't even bother to
tell you. An absolute path works fine.

Mike

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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction." --Albert Einstein
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