missing mkinitrd

[Matthew Flaschen]

Carl Alexander wrote:
> On an edgy system (recently upgraded from dapper), running
> aptitude install xen-image-xen0-2.6.17-6-server-xen0 finishes with 
> 
> "Setting up xen-image-xen0-2.6.17-6-server-xen0 (2.6.17-6) ...
> Please manually create an initrd image"
> 
> Googling on "initrd image" suggests that this is just a matter of
> mkinitrd /boot/initrd-<kernel>.img <kernel>.  Which left me
> wondering "if it's that easy, why didn't the installer just do
> it?" Which caused me to look for the mkinitrd man page, which in
> turn caused me to realize I don't have a mkinitrd binary. And
> apt-cache search mkinitrd gave output that didn't seem all that
> useful: 
> bootcd-mkinitrd - bootcd extension to create an
> initrd-image usable for bootcd yaird - Yet Another mkInitRD

You want to install yaird , I think.  That provides a mkinitrd.yaird
binary, which is supposed to accept all the same parameters as mkinitrd .

Matt Flaschen