why mkinitramfs doesn't work?

[Bastian]

Oliveiros Cristina schreef:
> Dear All,
> I am "desperately" trying to generate a ram drive image for use with a 
> kernel that I've just compiled.
> But mkinitramfs always insists in returning this message :
>
> oliveiros at Machon2:~$ sudo mkinitramfs -o 
> /boot/initrd-2.6.11-krg-root.img 2.6.11-krg-root
> W: kernerl 2.6.11-krg-root too old for initramfs on i386
> W: not generating requested initramfs for kernel 2.6.11-krg-root
>
> My ubuntu version is 6.06 LTS
>
> Can anybody give me a clue to what I might be doing wrong?
>
> Any help deeply appreciated
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
> Kind Regards,
> Oliveiros
The default kernel version for 6.06 is 2.6.15. Appearantly the 
mkinitramfs that comes with 6.06 does not like kernel 2.6.11. Do you 
have a specific reason for using an older kernel  version?

You can find the images for 2.6.15 in the repositories (or the sources 
if you want to compile the kernel yourself).

You also might want to try yaird instead of mkinitramfs.

Bastian