The 02.11.12 at 11:46, Anders Johansson wrote:
- At lilo.conf, every installed kernel refers to an "initrd". What's that?
The initial ram disk. When your computer boots up the kernel needs to know how to read the disk containing your root partition. There are two ways of
In 8.1, the modules that go there can be defined in /etc/sysconf/etc/sysconfig/kernel, variable "INITRD_MODULES". In suse 7.3 it is in /etc/rc.config. The script that creates the ramdisk is in /sbin/mk_initrd, and editing the variables kernels_default and initrds_default you can choose more different kernels to create the initrd file for, and the file name: # the kernel images to use; must be in $boot_dir kernels_default="vmlinuz vmlinuz.shipped" # initial ram disks (corresponding to $kernels); dto. in $boot_dir initrds_default="initrd initrd.shipped" -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson