[fedora-india] how create mkinitramfs & fedora src kernel

[Balaji G]

What stops you from pulling the vanilla source and compiling the kernel
yourself.

Cheers,
  - G

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Lakshmipathi.G <lakshmipathi.g at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi -
> I have downloaded & complied a kernel version 2.6.35. Now I need to create
> initramfs - I found that fedora doesn't have mkinitramfs command.
> It has something called dracut. I tried to use it "dracut
> initramfs.2.6.35.img 2.6.35"  and edited menu.lst.
> But the kernel is not booting .No error message (I assume it because it
> fails to find initramfs).
>
> Any one tried mkinitramfs with Fedora? I tried mkinitrd -it fails too.
>
> I'm still using Fedora 12  2.6.32.26-175.fc12.x86_64
>
> Question 2:
> Anyone installed  2.6.32.26-175.fc12.x86_64 kernel source ? I
> download  2.6.32.26-175.fc12.x86_64 src rpm It has lot of patches.When I
> tried apply few of them got rejected. why Fedora doesn't provide their
> kernel with all these patches applied by themselves rather than expecting
> end-user to spent their time in apply/debugging it?
>
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> Cheers,
> Lakshmipathi.G
> FOSS Programmer.
> www.giis.co.in
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