Problem with mkinitrd...

[Fawad Nazir]

Thanks you very much Colin, it works.

$ mkinitrd -o /initrd.img-2.6.16 2.6.16

I just changes initrd to mkinitramfs in the above command and it
worked without any problem.

Thanks...
Fawad.


On 5/3/06, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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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