[Voyage-linux] initrd.img

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi,

I would suggest you to remove the initrd line in /boot/grub/menu.list, 
and change the kernel line:
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1  console=ttyS0,38400n8

Note that root= parameter need to specify the exact device. Please test.

Regards,
Puunky

On 3/2/2010 3:50 AM, hambug wrote:
> We are using the voyage linux distribution and like it very much :)
>
> Since we have special reuirements for the the kernel (e.g., RTAI) we want to
> compile our own kernel. So we did the following:
>
> - Install voyage Linux on a Flash Disk (We use a Soekris board as a target)
> - Compile a new (patched) kernel
> - Copy the kernel to the /boot directory (on the flash disk)
> - Add a new grub entry in the menu.lst file
> - Copy the kernel modules to /lib/modules directory (on the flash disk)
>
> Result:
> * the kernel modules could not be loaded (the directory
> /lib/modules/new-kernel-version was not accessible even though it exisited
> on the flash card).
>
> * We have not generated a new initrd.img and we think that this might be the
> problem
> * Do we have to generate a new initrd.img that includes our new directory
> for the kernel modules?
> * How can we do this?
> * Why is a initrd.img required anyway?
>
> Thank you very much for helping us.
>
>    


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Regards,
Punky

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