An initrd image is needed for loading your SCSI
module at boot time or if you are compiling the kernel with ext3 support
as a module. If you do not need an initrd
image, do not make one and do not edit lilo.conf or
grub.conf to include this image.
Use the /sbin/mkinitrd shell script to build an
initrd image for your machine. To use this command,
the loopback block device must be available.
To build the new initrd image, run
/sbin/mkinitrd with parameters such as this:
/sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-0.12-jul2001.img 2.4.18-0.12-jul2001 |
In the above example,
/boot/initrd-2.4.18-0.12-jul2001.img
is the file name of the new initrd image.
2.4.18-0.12-jul2001 is the kernel whose modules
(from /lib/modules) should be used in the
initrd image. This is not necessarily the same as
the version number of the currently running kernel.
