On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:15:38AM -0500, Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh wrote:
Harry,
+ mkinitrd -o $dst/boot/initrd-$i.img $i
One comment that I have is that "mkinitird" options differs for
different distros. For example on SUSE distros it is "mkinitrd -k
<kernel> -I <initrd>". Is it possible to have the command change
depending on the distro?
For what it is worth, here is the break down of the Mandriva tool.
NAME
mkinitrd - creates initial ramdisk images for preloading modules
SYNOPSIS
mkinitrd [--version] [-v] [-f]
[--preload=module] [--with=module]
[--omit-scsi-modules] [--omit-raid-modules]
[--image-version] [--fstab=fstab] [--nocompress]
[--builtin=module] [--nopivot] [--noudev]
[--allow-missing] [--tmpdir=tmpdir]
[--initrdfs=fs] [--dsdt[=dsdt.aml]]
[--lvm-version=1|2] [--force-usb]
image kernel-version
-Sean