Hi, Thanks a lot . I found if i make the rpm of kernel from kernel.src.rpm . This creates the initrd.img . But when i tried from source code , it creates the rpm but it's not making initrd.img . So i have do this manually . BUt i don't know How i can do on my own installation CD ???

Thanks in advance

Regards juliet On 4/26/06, Marco Garza testuser@ccskavenger.info wrote:

Have a look here: http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html

-Marco

----- Original Message ----- From: "PV Juliet" pvjuliet@gmail.com To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:24 PM Subject: [CentOS] Kernel RPM

Hi All, I have posted same subject before also . i got suggestions . It worked also . I using source code of kernel 2.6.9( ie is in tar format) which is applied all the patches . I tried to make the rpm of kernel out of this but it's not creating initrd.img .Without this system is not booting . Is there any way do this ...?

Thanks in advance

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Hi, I need this do automatically . If i am doing this manually it works fine .After installing this rpm it should create automatically.

Thanks in advance

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On 4/30/06, Peter Kjellström cap@nsc.liu.se wrote:

On Thursday 27 April 2006 06:17, PV Juliet wrote:

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Hi, Thanks a lot . I found if i make the rpm of kernel from kernel.src.rpm . This creates the initrd.img . But when i tried from source code , it creates the rpm but it's not making initrd.img . So i have do this manually . BUt i don't know How i can do on my own installation CD ???

mkinitrd creates initrd files: mkinitrd /my/new/initrd.img my-kernel-version

/Peter

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On Wednesday 03 May 2006 06:46, PV Juliet wrote:

Hi, I need this do automatically . If i am doing this manually it works fine .After installing this rpm it should create automatically.

redhat kernel rpms typically does this automatically, the rpm you get from "make rpm" in a vanilla kernel source tree does not.

/Peter