[gentoo-user] how to create initial ramdisk image?

[gentoo-user] how to create initial ramdisk image?

[El Nino]

dear friends,

how to create initial ramdisk image for preloading modules?
[i saw this kind of file(.igz) on Gentoo Live 2005.1 cd.]

....................>>>my previouse
question<<<---------------------------------------------------------------
On 11/20/05, b.n. <brullonulla@gmail.com> wrote:
> El Nino wrote:
> > dear friends,
> >
> > append initrd=gentoo.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc
> > looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs dokeymap  cdroot
> >
> > how can we create .igz files. i saw this kind of file on the Gentoo
> > Live 2005.1 cd '/isolinux/' folder(think it contain current kernel
> > compiled modules).so please help me to create this file.
>
> what's the problem? can't you boot?
>
> m.
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Re: [gentoo-user] how to create initial ramdisk image?

[Richard Fish]

On 11/19/05, El Nino <adaptit@gmail.com> wrote:
> dear friends,
>
> how to create initial ramdisk image for preloading modules?
> [i saw this kind of file(.igz) on Gentoo Live 2005.1 cd.]
>
> ....................>>>my previouse

mkinitrd.
mkinitrd.

If that doesn't do what you want, it is just a shell script, so you
can modify it pretty easily.

If that doesn't do what you want, it is just a shell script, so you
can modify it pretty easily.

BTW, why do you post questions twice?
BTW, why do you post questions twice?

-Richard

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