On Friday 22 April 2005 09:09 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 22 April 2005 06:55, Danny Sauer wrote:
There's a /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-24.10-default and a /boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-24.10-default.gz - note the z v/s x in the file name and the .gz extension on one. I figured that the x meant "this is an initrd, load me into memory".
The vmlinux-whatever.gz is a regular kernel with debugging symbols in it. I believe there is a readme file somewhere in there that explains it.
Ohhh. I guess that's why not much interesting happens when it's loaded as an initrd, eh?
note that with a 2.6.8 kernel, $SUBJECT is wrong. 2.6.8 is from 9.2, not 9.3
I'm not sure why I keep referring to 9.2 as 9.3 - there's something wrong in my head. :) Also, I can't reach a solution to this problem for a few days now - some idiot hooked up the hard drive in a machine to make the initrd, and laid the exposed circuit board down on the case of the computer. The machine's fans slowed down momentarily, and the hard drive never spun up again. Hooray for short circuits! Though, part of the drive's board does get pretty hot now when power's applied... A [larger] replacemend eBay drive is on the way now. Next time, I know what to do to make it work. :) --Danny, better insulating drives when temporarily hooked up from now on (or until that gets boring)