I am doing an install on a multi boot system. All OS are linux distros
I use legacy grub. I am using ext3 for all distros.
I installed Salix using ext3 to one of my partitions. Since I already have a grub system going on its own partition, I selected don't install Lilo durring install.
All seemed to go well until I inspected the /boot dir and found a huge smp kernel but no corresponding *.img file. There is one diag.img file but I don't think that is the initrd needed for startup.
I recall one other slackware derived distro did this and some how I generated an initrd with the mkinitrd.
How can I make or get ahold of an initrd for my install?
no initrd image on install [solved]
no initrd image on install [solved]
Last edited by joeham on 25. Sep 2009, 02:23, edited 1 time in total.
Re: no initrd image on install
Hi! Use of an initrd is not mandatory. You can boot with absolutely no problems at all without one, as support for all filesystems/controllers is built in the huge-smp kernel. However, you can read all about creating one in the README.initrd in any slackware server: ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/slackware/s ... DME.initrd
Re: no initrd image on install [solved]
OK it does work!
First distro I've used that does that.
First distro I've used that does that.