SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for x86

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mkinitrd
Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules

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
Release: 199.50
Medium: CD1
Path: /suse/i586/mkinitrd-1.0-199.50.i586.rpm
Group: System/Base
License: GPL
Size: 102 KB

File list 

drwxr-xr-x     root     root           72 Jul  2 00:24 /lib/mkinitrd
-rwxr-xr-x     root     root         7167 Jul  1 23:46 /lib/mkinitrd/kinit.sh
-rwxr-xr-x     root     root         1862 Jul  2 00:24 /sbin/installkernel
lrwxr-xr-x     root     root            8 Jul  2 00:24 /sbin/mk_initrd -> mkinitrd
-rwxr-xr-x     root     root        29560 Jul  1 23:46 /sbin/mkinitramfs
-rwxr-xr-x     root     root        60529 Jul  2 00:24 /sbin/mkinitrd
-rwxr-xr-x     root     root         4717 Jul  2 00:24 /sbin/new-kernel-pkg
-rwxr-xr-x     root     root          868 Jul  2 00:24 /usr/share/man/man8/mkinitrd.8.gz

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