why mkinitramfs doesn't work?

[Oliveiros Cristina]

Hello, Bastian.
Thank you for your e-mail.

The reason for using 2.6.11 is that
I want to test a special kernel that corresponds to 2.6.11 with some patches
and additional modules.
I've compiled this kernel with no errors, but I am not succeeding in booting
it.

When you say that I can find the images on repositories, are you referring
to the ram drive image ?

On the other hand, do I always need the ram drive, or can I boot (by using a
special configuration) a kernel without the auxiliary ram drive image? I've
already tried it, it boots ok at the beginning but it seems to fail when it
starts to check my ext3 partitions. and it stops booting giving me a root
user prompt. But the keyboard doesn't respond.

Cheers,
Oliveiros

2007/2/6, Bastian <ubuntuusers0702 at melvex.xs4all.nl>:
>
> 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
>
>
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