Problem with mkinitrd...

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 04:29:51AM +0500, Fawad Nazir wrote:
> I am trying to create a ramdisk image using mkinitrd command. But i
> get the following problem.
> I will be thankful for any help in this regard.
> 
> fawad at Test:/boot$ mkinitrd -o /initrd.img-2.6.16 2.6.16

You cannot use mkinitrd with 2.6.16, because devfs has been removed in
recent versions of the kernel and mkinitrd relies on devfs. Use
mkinitramfs instead (which has somewhat different semantics; read the
documentation).

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]