Re: kernel rebuild and grub.conf

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday mindspring com>]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, shane c branch wrote:

> Does the mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21.img 2.4.21 command needs to be issued
> from inside the kernel source directory as well?

not that i know of.  all that's necessary is that

1) you must have done a "make modules_install" so that there is a
   corresponding /lib/modules directory with that version number.

2) you can call the "initrd" file anything you want, as long as it
   matches the entry you put in /etc/grub.conf

rday

p.s.  or you can just be a stud and move on up to the 2.5.7x kernels. :-)
which really don't require any extra processing from what you'd do with
the 2.4 kernels.


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Robert P. J. Day
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