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mkinitrd: Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules.

Name:mkinitrd Vendor:StartCom Ltd., http://www.startcom.org
Version:5.1.19.6 License:GPL
Release:61 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-5.1.19.6-61.i386.rpm
Build Date:Thu Apr 8 04:18:04 2010
Packager:Eddy Nigg <eddy_nigg@startcom.org>
Size:947 KiB

Changelog

* Mon Apr 5 01:00:00 2010 Eddy Nigg <eddy_nigg.org>
- Rebuild for StartCom Linux 5.0.x
* Tue Mar 9 00:00:00 2010 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 5.1.19.6-61
- Use "sg" not "scsi_wait_scan" on RHEL-5
  Resolves: rhbz#460899 (#c56)
* Thu Feb 25 00:00:00 2010 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 5.1.19.6-60
- Follow symlinks when resolving kernel modules. (jleddy)
  Resolves: rhbz#540641

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