Bug 17067
| Summary: | mkinitrd does not seem to work.... | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | adler |
| Component: | mkinitrd | Assignee: | Matt Wilson <msw> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | CC: | adler |
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-08-29 15:05:19 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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mkinitrd definitely looks in modules.conf, and the man page has been updated to reflect this in a later release. this bug dies of old age.... reopen if it's still applicable |
I installed pinstripe a while ago, just after it came out. I got a new Adaptec AIC-7892 Ultra 160/m SCSI host adapter and ran the mkinitrd command in order to create a new initrd image so that when the kernel booted, it would load both my Buslogic and Adaptec drivers. Well, the kernel did not load any of the two. What worries me is that since you guys have depricated /etc/conf.modules in favor of /etc/modules.conf (ugg....) I'm wondering if mkinitrd is looking at the wrong file. The man page for mkinitrd references /etc/conf.modules and not /etc/modules.conf. Here look.... MKINITRD(8) MKINITRD(8) NAME mkinitrd - creates initial ramdisk images for preloading modules SYNOPSIS mkinitrd [-fv] [--with=module] [--preload=module] [--omit-scsi-modules] [--omit-raid-modules] [--version] [--fstab=fstab] image kernel-version DESCRIPTION mkinitrd creates filesystem images which are suitable for use as Linux initial ramdisk (initrd) images. Such images are often used for preloading the block device modules (such as SCSI or RAID) which are needed to access the root filesystem. mkinitrd automatically loads all scsi_hostadapter entries in /etc/conf.modules, which makes it simple to build and use kernels using moduler SCSI devices. Any module options specified in /etc/conf.modules are passed to the modules as they are loaded by the initial ramdisk. In anycase, it could be that something else is mucked up. I'll be glad to assist in helping debug this problem. Cheers. Steve.