Hi All, I've had no joy with mkinitrd on the latest unstable system. I have a promise sx4000 ATA raid controller that I've successfully compiled drivers for against debian kernel source 2.4.22. I'm attempting to create an initrd, so I can boot off the raid device. I've included the necessary modules such as cramfs etc in the kernel, basically I copied the config from the unstable kernel_image_2.4.22-1-686 deb file. The driver works fine and /dev/sda1 has a working copy of the installation files. I've installed mkinitrd and adjusted the scripts to include the raid driver. I've mounted the image and can verify the drivers inclusion. When I set boot=/dev/hda and root=/dev/sda1 I hit kernel panic with the following entries...
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed initrd-tools: 0.1.55 warning: can't open /etc/mtab: no such file or directory modprobe: Can't locate module FastTrak.o ... pivot_root: No such file or directory. /sbin/init: 338: can not open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Basically the driver module is not loading and we can't mount the root filesystem. The module FastTrak.o can't be found, but I've mounted the rd image and can verify the inclusion. I've adjusted the modules file within the /etc/mkinitrd folder, and added the module as /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/scsi/FastTrak.o and simply FastTrak.o, the result is the same. It looks close, but I'm unable to get around the failure to locate the module. I've scrounged through what little info I can find and have struck a bit of an impasse. Can anyone offer any advice on how to do this correctly? Cheers, Lewis Shobbrook
