On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 11:56 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
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> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I'm too lazy to want to do my own initrd. I just use the prepackaged ones 
> > and rely on the fact that my private kernel will refuse to load modules 
> > that aren't meant for it anyway.

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> initrds generally aren't prepackaged, but generated on install (at least 
> with Fedora).  You can regenerate them with "mkinitrd -f 
> /boot/initrd-2.6.24.img 2.6.24".  Also, I find that "make 
> modules_install install" does it automatically from a kernel build.

Right. I assumed that Linus was calling mkinitrd but was being bitten by
one of the occasional assumptions (I believe we make in that script)
that certain things are always modular. I just mailed the maintainer,
suggesting we screen against the one of the Modules.* files (perhaps
Modules.order might become a good candidate in due course...).

Jon.


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