From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966020AbXDHBmx (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 21:42:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966039AbXDHBmx (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 21:42:53 -0400 Received: from caffeine.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:37908 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966020AbXDHBmw (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 21:42:52 -0400 Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 21:42:50 -0400 To: johnrobertbanks@fastmail.fm Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Ignatich , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: COMPILING AND CONFIGURING A NEW KERNEL. Message-ID: <20070408014250.GH3510@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <46157B5B.5000602@gmail.com> <1175817921.18400.1183285196@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1175909205.905.1183425104@webmail.messagingengine.com> <12252.1175964174@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1175994157.1894.1183513166@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1175994157.1894.1183513166@webmail.messagingengine.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 06:02:37PM -0700, johnrobertbanks@fastmail.fm wrote: > Thats interesting, I didn't know that. > > Do you know if deb-pkg and rpm-pkg take care of creating the initrd > automatically. > > I seriously doubt they do. > > Actually, I guess I only need to compile another kernel to find out. Certainly on debian make-kpkg actually does have options for initrd (--initrd) and will call mkinitrd/update-initramfs/yaird at package install time to generate an initrd for the kernel to deal with raid, lvm, etc. It works quite well in general. I would be surprised if redhat didn't do something similar. -- Len Sorensen