kickstart RH8 using Vanilla Kernel.Org

[Dan Carpenter]

I haven't tried this and this is written freehand so it may not work.

So you've compiled your kernel.org kernel and you have a vmlinuz and
some modules.  Let's say the kernel version is 2.4.8.

cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd initrd.orig
zcat initrd.orig > foo
mkdir bar
mount -o loop foo bar
mkdir 2.4.8/
find  /lib/modules/2.4.8/ -name \*.o -exec mv \{\} 2.4.8/ \;
find 2.4.8 | cpio -co | gzip -9 > bar/modules/modules.cgz
umount bar
gzip foo
mv foo.gz intrd-2.4.8.img
mv /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.8 .

regards,
dan carpenter

2005/9/16, ducatirdr at comcast.net <ducatirdr at comcast.net>:
>
> I think my problem is in the initrd to start the kickstart loader.  But I
> don't know how to make this ramdisk. ( what files are needed. etc.)  I used
> the kernel.org kernel to pxe boot and used the ramdisk from the images/ of
> rh8 cd1.  But this should be a mismatch right ?
>
>