how to compile a generic kernel
Velocity
first time then a generic cd is used to installed which does a devfs
and probes the hardware for the first time for installation then
mounts the initrd which mounts the root filesystem on the cdrom .
Which is done by a generic kernel on cd. How can I compile a generic
kernel and an initrd which are similar to the one on installation cd.
Jan Kandziora
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> How can I compile a generic
> kernel and an initrd which are similar to the one on installation cd.
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later. The difference lies in the initrd. While the installation cd's
initrd contains *all* drivers which *could* be neccessary for booting on an
arbitrary PCr, the installed initrd just contains the drivers that are
neccessary for booting on the installed PC.
If you want to get an initrd with all the drivers from the DVD, why don't
you just use the one from the DVD? It's at boot/i386/loader/initrd on the
DVD. Just copy (with rename!) it to your /boot directory and add another
entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst, which uses *that* initrd instead of the
installed one.
Kind regards
Jan
Unruh
The title and content of this post are at odds.
If you want to know how to make a live CD, go look at MCNLinux, which has
little scripts to actually build a live (bootable ) CD for you.
Velocity
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> The title and content of this post are at odds.
> If you want to know how to make a live CD, go look at MCNLinux, which has
> little scripts to actually build a live (bootable ) CD for you.
Well thanks a lot actually I am not trying to make a live CD ,since I
did not knew hot to post the question so it might have seemed odd to
you.
The reply given by
Jan Kandziora
was exactly what I needed . I had not checked my mails for a long time
so I missed to read in the mean time
I got what was actually I was searching for I am posting this as
a reference if some one by mistake read this and is willing to do same
as I did with some other distribution after reading this link go here
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...=1#post2935301
you copy the initrd from the distribution DVD and the one on your boot
folder inside the system
and do as root
gzip -dc initrd | cpio -id
you will see a lot of directories and some executables
do this for both the initrd's the one on boot folder and the one in
installation media
the difference comes in
modules which they load
I am not sure about the udev or devfs which the initrd on installation
cd or dvd does .
Actually the difference comes in the init script which you see for
both the initrd's the init extracted from the initrd of installation
cd or dvd
has a linuxrc script which starts installaion by calling the installer
which in my case was yast and in case of fedora is anaconda and debian
has its own.
here is one more link
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs...
Now what I need is to be able to write an init script that calls
linuxrc or if some one can give me any link where I can get that would
be helpful but the reply given on this forum are really correct and
would help any one who came across this thread in my case I missed to
read the reply since I already figured out this process but it was
exact answer that I was searching for.