Re: kernel rebuild and grub.conf

["shane c branch" <scbranch barton edu>]

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On 6/30/2003 at 12:29 PM Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>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.
>
>
>--
>
>Robert P. J. Day
>Eno River Technologies
>Unix, Linux and Open Source training
>Waterloo, Ontario
>
>www.enoriver.com
>

hmmm. Okay, I tried the command, and got the following error:

# mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21.img 2.4.21
no module ips found for kernel 2.4.21

although I did use the modules_install line when i did the build:
 # make dep clean; make bzImage modules modules_install



regards,

shane