Re: software for making initrd's with raid support

[Luca Berra <bluca@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 01:38:06PM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> > really?
> > if this is the case you should have submitted a bug report.
>
> It is possible that I do. I would like to find out what to do first,
> however.

in any case if i am to provide any support, i need more information on
the issue you experienced.

> Thanks for your answers. 
>
> I filed a feature request for cooker on harddrake2 and drakx.
good,
could you send me (privately) the bugzilla number?
> I think mkinitrd is actually used by the kernel, with a make install.
this is because kernel "make install" command looks for a site specific
script called /sbin/installkernel.

> Is that true? Then mkinitrd is a general script that is used on almost
> all linux systems. So I can assume that this is available when I write a
> howto.
afaik redhat, mandriva and turbolinux use a mkinitrd derived from
redhat

suse uses its own mkinitrd command

debian and derivatives use initramfs-tools, or yaird

other distributions i have no knowledge.

L.


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