On 13-Dec-2000 Bob Taylor opined:
> I installed the kernel-2.2.16-3 updates on my wife's Pentium and
> noticed that there is no initrd installed. What do I do?
As root:
/sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.16-3.img 2.2.16-3
That will create a new one.
The next question is, do you really need it? It's generally only needed
for the non-auto-detected hardware required when booting up from the
BIOS, such as SCSI hard drives on an older SCSI card (like early
Adpatecs) or network cards needed in order to set network settings that
are used to complete login for a network. Just a couple of examples here.
But, most people don't usually require them. Most things can be handled
with /etc/conf.modules after the boot process reaches the normal stage
where they are installed automatically.
Then again, having one doesn't hurt anything. Just uses a little disk
space.
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