newbie question - mkinitrd

Jeroen van Meeuwen kanarip at kanarip.com
Thu Nov 30 02:07:07 UTC 2006


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Don Raikes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just tried to create a new initrd by using mkinitrd to include the sky2 module so I have networking support when I bootup.
> 
> The command I used was:
> 
> $ mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.img 2.6.18-1.2798 --with=sky2
> 
> Now when I reboot the system, it goes into an infinite loop of rebooting.
> 

I suppose there's not a single error message?

Can you check /etc/inittab for the initdefault setting?

Does your customly build initrd boot if you create it the same way
without the --with=sky2 parameter?

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
- -kanarip
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