Re: initrd question

2004-09-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Steven Curtis wrote: > I can't drop this initrd problem because I've run into this before and > I'm determined to figure out how to make it work correctly because until > now, I've always bailed and compiled a new kernel. This time, I'm going > to figure it out. I

Re: initrd question

2004-09-11 Thread Steven Curtis
I can't drop this initrd problem because I've run into this before and I'm determined to figure out how to make it work correctly because until now, I've always bailed and compiled a new kernel. This time, I'm going to figure it out. In order to verify the contents of the ram disk image, I ne

Re: initrd question

2004-09-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello May be the simplest way is to build your own kernel. On the other I guess that surch an information is somewhere in the initrd file. Jerome Steven Curtis wrote: I'm not sure how to check that. I am using the kernel that is included with the Debian package kernel-image version 2.6.7-2. Ho

Re: initrd question

2004-09-11 Thread Steven Curtis
I'm not sure how to check that. I am using the kernel that is included with the Debian package kernel-image version 2.6.7-2. How can you tell what version of initrd was used to build it? Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello, the package initrd-tools was recently updated [and if I remember well importan

Re: initrd question

2004-09-10 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, the package initrd-tools was recently updated [and if I remember well important bugs were fixed]: have you check that your kernel was built with the latest version ? hth, Jerome Steven Curtis wrote: Stefan O'Rear wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:58:53PM -0400, Steven Curtis wrote: I'm

Re: initrd question

2004-09-10 Thread Steven Curtis
Stefan O'Rear wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:58:53PM -0400, Steven Curtis wrote: I'm trying to upgrade to the vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7 kernel and my system has an Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI adapter. The stock vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7 kernel has aic7xxx support compiled as a module. I added the aic7

Re: initrd question

2004-09-10 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:58:53PM -0400, Steven Curtis wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade to the vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7 kernel and my system has > an Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI adapter. The stock vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7 > kernel has aic7xxx support compiled as a module. I added the aic7xxx > module line

initrd question

2004-09-10 Thread Steven Curtis
I'm trying to upgrade to the vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7 kernel and my system has an Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI adapter. The stock vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7 kernel has aic7xxx support compiled as a module. I added the aic7xxx module line to /etc/mkinitrd/modules and recreated the initrd image with 'mkinitr