On Saturday 16 March 2002 19.35, Dave Smith wrote:
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:28:03AM -0800, ben@whack.org wrote:
You have to rerun lilo after mk_initrd or so I was told. No matter when it was run in the past. The two last things that should be done on 7.2 or 7.3 and the upcoming 8.0 are mk_initrd and lilo to update it so it knows where the correct initrd is ;)
I stand corrected (I don't need an initrd, so I usually forget this stage).
However, the chances are that given the person involved appears to have little linux experience, they are unlikely to have a setup requiring an initrd (ReiserFS/NFS/SCSI root). OK, they might have SCSI disks, but I'd wager that an initrd is unnecessary. I'm trying to keep things as simple as possible :-)
It was a while since I did a fresh install last so my memory may be deceiving me, but I was pretty sure reiser was the default in 7.3, so for most people, certainly all "newbies" who select default, mk_initrd will be necessary. //Anders