On 24 July 2010 15:19, Mahesh Pai <paiva...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can an initrd image built for one hard ware boot other hard ware > configuration? Specifically, my ups conked out taking regular machines > down with it. Nothing much can be done. And i an lucky to get back the > disk with data and os intact. That was an msi mobo with via chipset. > Today evening I will get a new system with asus m2n 68 am mobo and > nvidia 7025 chipset. Will i be able boot on new mobo using old initrd > image? If not what do i need to do? The old initrd image is built > using the option to use only required modules. Which meant several > modules were left out and i got a very small initrd image and faster > system. Apologies for poor formatting. Posting from mobile. Dunno how > to enter line break. > > _______________________________________________
The initrd on installation media is quite generic. You can use that. If you can boot into the system from an alternate medium, chroot and you can use mkinitrd to create a fresh one. Regards Anil _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
