About the initrd

[peterchu]

I want to update the firmware of my server ,
the step is as below , for the step 2 , it ask to "remake initrd" , can suggest how to do it , is it just remove the initrd and then create this file again ? thx.

1. Edit the /etc/modules.conf file so that references to aic7xxx are replaced by aic7xxx_mod

2. Remake initrd

3. Reboot server

[xyko_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

the command to recriate the initrd is mkinitrd.

The sintax for the command is

mkinitrd /boot/your-image-file.img name-of-your-kernel-image

you may find both the image-file and the name-kernel in /boot and in your /etc/lilo.conf or, if are using grub, in /boot/grub/grub.conf.

But I strongly suggest that you create another initrd-image-file and another entry in lilo.conf or grub, because if something goes wrong you may boot using the old copy.

Hope this helps.
Xyko