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mkinitrd: Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules.
| Name: | mkinitrd |
Vendor: | StartCom Ltd., http://www.startcom.org |
| Version: | 5.0.32 |
License: | GPL |
| Release: | 1 |
URL: | |
- Summary
- Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd)
images. These ramdisk images are often used to preload the block
device modules (SCSI or RAID) needed to access the root filesystem.
In other words, generic kernels can be built without drivers for any
SCSI adapters which load the SCSI driver as a module. Since the
kernel needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able to
address the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used. The initial
ramdisk is loaded by the operating system loader (normally LILO) and
is available to the kernel as soon as the ramdisk is loaded. The
ramdisk image loads the proper SCSI adapter and allows the kernel to
mount the root filesystem. The mkinitrd program creates such a
ramdisk using information found in the /etc/modules.conf file.
Arch: src
| Download: | mkinitrd-5.0.32-1.src.rpm |
| Build Date: | Wed Apr 5 08:10:20 2006 |
| Packager: | Eddy Nigg <eddy_nigg@startcom.org> |
| Size: | 137 KiB |
Changelog
- * Tue Apr 4 01:00:00 2006 Eddy Nigg <eddy_nigg{%}startcom{*}org>
-
- Rebuild for StartCom Linux 5.0.x
- * Tue Mar 14 00:00:00 2006 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 5.0.32-1
-
- handle sd_mod on scsi_mod in findmodule, not in the scsi setup. This
fixes the "no scsi_hostadapter" alias problem better (#182008).
- * Sat Mar 11 00:00:00 2006 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 5.0.31-1
-
- add segv handler for nash