You've done man mkinitrd ?

Tarjei

John O'Gorman wrote:

>After a few weeks of prayer and fasting, I think I now know what
>must be done to allow LTSP to work with the new SiS630ET chip.
>
>From a remark by Ken Yap, I infer that the sis900.o file must be
>in the initrd file image which is tacked onto the kernel image.
>
>So I think that I need to:
>  1. Recompile the 2.4.9 kernel with a (slightly modified) sis900.c
>     file from the 2.4.18 source.
>
>  2. make the bzImage of the new 2.4.9 kernel (although this may not
>     be necessary as the kernel itself will be no different, just
>     the sis900.o module).
>
>  3. build a new initrd and connect this to the kernel using mknbi
>     from the etherboot package.
>
>My problem: I don't know how to make the new initrd. I cannot find
>any relevant INSTALL, README, or HOWTO on this topic.
>
>   
>All the other LTSP stuff has come in RPM files which have installed into
>/opt/ltsp/i386
>
>The initrd_kit is a tar.gz file.
>
>Where should I unload it? in /usr/src/linux2.4.9 (where the kernel is)
> or into /opt/ltsp/i386?
>
>Having untarred the initrd_kit into the right place, what do I do
>next. (There is a buildk script. Do I run that.)
>
>Any help would we much appreciated.
>
>John O'Gorman
>
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