On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 18:25:08 -0500
zentara
Egads.. download the Redhat rpm to use on SuSe? Ha ha, you have alot of nerve putting that on this list. :-) (At least you could have said " get the tarball") Just kidding.
Yes, nerve of steel ;-).
Suse's mk_initrd works just fine. The secret is it defaults to the modules listed in rc.config under "mk_initrd modules; and it defaults to the "suse-naming-scheme " for kernels. So if you are rolling and naming your own kernels, you need to read "man mk_initrd" to see how to change the default settings.
When I did that I was using a SuSE kernel, actually one of Herbert's. I usually like to compile the modules into the kernel. However, it did not work on 2.4.13(?), but would compile as modules. The problem that I had IIRC was exactly the same as the originator of the thread: all partitions with the exception of / would mount as ext3. So I decided to try Redhat's mkinitrd (since they paid for ext3 development) to see if it worked better and it did. This was way before SuSE supported ext3 though, I would assume that it works now. Regards, Charles -- The box saids Windows XP or better, so I installed Linux