On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Matthew Walster wrote:
> All I know is that mkinitramfs doesn't work, mkinitrd does, and the
> only difference between the two is one is for udev, one is for devfs.
The difference is much greater than this. 'initramfs' is about having a
very early filesystem, which is then responsible for doing some low-level
tasks such as locating the root-filesystem and mounting it, or initiating an
unhibernate---and usplash lives in there too. These are tasks that used to
be taken care of by the kernel itself.
If you're building a custom linux kernel then you'll likely need to build
your own initramfs; to rebuild one for the currently running kernel
version, use:
$ sudo update-initramfs -u `uname -r`
What's the bug number covering your boot issues?
-Paul
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