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mkinitrd: Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules.

Name:mkinitrd Vendor:Scientific Linux
Version:4.2.1.13 License:GPL
Release:4 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-4.2.1.13-4.i386.rpm
Build Date:Wed Jun 10 18:42:10 2009
Packager:
Size:128 KiB

Changelog

* Tue Jan 13 18:00:00 2009 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 4.2.1.13-4
- Add virtio support (hansg)
  Resolves: rhbz#479239
* Tue Sep 25 19:00:00 2007 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 4.2.1.13-2
- Support quoted spaces on the kernel command line
  Resolves: #240777
* Wed Aug 8 19:00:00 2007 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 4.2.1.13-1
- Fix linking error
  Related: #214841

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