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mkinitrd: Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules.

Name:mkinitrd Vendor:Scientific Linux
Version:4.2.1.10 License:GPL
Release:1.1 URL:
Summary
Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd) images. These ramdisk images are often used to preload the block device modules (SCSI or RAID) needed to access the root filesystem. In other words, generic kernels can be built without drivers for any SCSI adapters which load the SCSI driver as a module. Since the kernel needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able to address the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used. The initial ramdisk is loaded by the operating system loader (normally LILO) and is available to the kernel as soon as the ramdisk is loaded. The ramdisk image loads the proper SCSI adapter and allows the kernel to mount the root filesystem. The mkinitrd program creates such a ramdisk using information found in the /etc/modules.conf file.

Arch: i386

Download:mkinitrd-4.2.1.10-1.1.i386.rpm
Build Date:Fri May 4 00:58:57 2007
Packager:
Size:127 KiB

Changelog

* Wed Feb 7 18:00:00 2007 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 4.2.1.10-1.1
- Fix 'requires' for usb changes.
  Related: #202070
* Wed Jan 31 18:00:00 2007 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 4.2.1.10-1
- Allow use of usb devices as the root filesystem
  Resolves: #202070
* Tue Jan 30 18:00:00 2007 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 4.2.1.9-1
- Fix handling of modprobe options when they span multiple lines
  Resolves: #184544

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