man bootcdmkinitrd (Commandes) - rebuild initrd image to use with bootcd
NAME
bootcdmkinitrd - rebuild initrd image to use with bootcd
SYNOPSIS
bootcdmkintrd [-s]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the command bootcdmkinitrd The bootcdmkinitrd script helps to configure your initrd to use discover and autodetection of boot device. It is only useful if you are using initrd to boot. All standard debian 2.4 kernels are using initrd.
Bootcd is designed to copy your actual system to cd. This means, if you want to use discover and autodetection of boot device on your bootcd, you have to install, configure and test discover and bootcdmkinitrd on your system first.
To use bootcdmkinitrd your actual running kernel must already use initrd. Bootcdmkinitrd will then reconfigure your initrd. It configures /etc/mkinitrd/* and calls mkinitrd to recreate a new /boot/initrd.img-<kernel-version> which uses discover to detect the actual hardware at boottime.
A bootcd that is created from a system that uses discover can easily boot on other systems, if the necessary modules are compiled.
The initrd probes automaticly for the bootcd-device, if the kernel option root="auto" is given. This is done by the script bootcdproberoot.
OPTIONS
- -s
- means silent and canbe used to to disable interactive questions and to try to ignore errors.
WARNING
The bootcdmkinitrd script changes your running /boot/initrd.img-<kernel-version> afterwards lilo will be called.
With deinstalling bootcdmkinitrd your initrd will not be changed. But the prerm script tries to make sure, mkinitrd can be called without errors, resulting from having installed bootcd-mkinitrd before.
OPTIONS
No options are available.
SEE ALSO
bootcd(1), bootcd2disk(1), bootcdflopcp(1), bootcdwrite(1), discover(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Bernd Schumacher <bernd.schumacher@hp.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).