[SGVLUG] Initrd question

David Lawyer dave at lafn.org
Sun Oct 7 22:23:01 PDT 2007


On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 09:20:34AM -0700, Sean O'Donnell wrote:
> 
> David Lawyer wrote:
> >Wrong mailing list.  LDP publishes documentation and is behind
> >on it's own work; so it can't be a forum for questions about Linux.
> 
> hmm, what does LDP have to do w/ this?
Sorry, I guess I thought it was to the LDP mailing list.  I was pretty
upset over something at the time and hadn't had much sleep.
			David Lawyer

> >
> >On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:35:50PM -0700, John Lowry wrote:
> >>In the process of rolling my own kernel I have run into a sticking
> >>point. I want to building an initrd image so I can build my file system
> >>drivers as modules, as well as my IDE drivers. I copy over the built
> >>kernel, the System.map, and build the images using mkinitrd. When I add
> >>those all to grub and try to boot, I get an error about not correct
> >>root. I can post more when I try to boot again off the initrd. Any
> >>suggestions? I am missing a crucial piece somewhere I think, because all
> >>of my google results are not returning anything like what I am 
> >>experiencing.
> >>
> >			David Lawyer
> >
> >
> 


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