Novell Linux Desktop 9
package descriptions
mkinitrd
Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules
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Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd) images. These ramdisk images are often used to preload the block device modules (SCSI or RAID) needed to access the root filesystem. In other words, generic kernels can be built without drivers for any SCSI adapters which load the SCSI driver as a module. Since the kernel needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able to address the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used. The initial ramdisk is loaded by the operating system loader (normally LILO) and is available to the kernel as soon as the ramdisk is loaded. The ramdisk loads the proper SCSI adapter and allows the kernel to mount the root filesystem. |
| Version: | 1.0 |
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| Release: | 199.54 |
| Medium: | DVD1 |
| Path: | /suse/i586/mkinitrd-1.0-199.54.i586.rpm |
| Group: | System/Base |
| License: | GPL |
| Size: | 103 KB |
File list
drwxr-xr-x root root 72 Aug 25 18:07 /lib/mkinitrd -rwxr-xr-x root root 7258 Jul 28 15:22 /lib/mkinitrd/kinit.sh -rwxr-xr-x root root 1862 Aug 25 18:07 /sbin/installkernel lrwxr-xr-x root root 8 Aug 25 18:07 /sbin/mk_initrd -> mkinitrd -rwxr-xr-x root root 30057 Aug 2 10:01 /sbin/mkinitramfs -rwxr-xr-x root root 60853 Aug 25 18:07 /sbin/mkinitrd -rwxr-xr-x root root 4717 Aug 25 18:07 /sbin/new-kernel-pkg -rwxr-xr-x root root 868 Aug 25 18:07 /usr/share/man/man8/mkinitrd.8.gz