Confused-finishing 2.6.2 install

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 06.02.2004 schrieb Scott Fones um 11:37:
> I'm a little confused.  I read the documentation and followed it though to 
> compile/install the 2.6.2 kernel from source.  I ran my make modules_install 
> and make install commands with no problems.  The readme now says to copy the 
> /arch/i386/boot/bzImage to where my bootable kernal image is found.  So, I 
> opened up /etc/grub.conf so see where it looks and it has two files it looks 
> for in /boot. for a vmlinuz* file and an initrd* file.  From the looks of it 
> the bzImage is renamed to vmlinuz, but thats just my inference from the 
> directions.  My real problem is I have no idea where the initrd* file comes 
> from.  Can anyone help me finish off this installation, this is my first 
> time compiling a kernel and it was going so smoothly.
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott

man mkinitrd
mkinitrd --help

Alexander


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