[Malvern] Debian

[Chris Eilbeck]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:27:30PM +0000, Andy Dixon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I keep hearing people comment on Debian being probably one of the best
> distros.
> 
> Being a long standing FC user, I decided to give it a try on my laptop
> to replace Fedora.
> 
> It took me a while to work out that its not happy with a 2.4 kernel, but
> after a 2.6 kernel install, and getting my wireless to work, as well as
> acpi, i'm just left with a prolem with my soundcard. The 2.6.8 kernel
> seems to have an issue with the snd-atiixp module.
> 
> I have downloaded 2.6.15 and gone through the make oldconfig, make all
> etc.. up to make install, however, it does not seem to have created an
> initrd.img file..
> 
> Is anyone able to give me a pointer on how to get this file created?

You use mkinitrd as root.  I'm not exactly sure how to do this but you copy
drivers into the heirarcy under /etc/mkinitrd and edit a file or two then
issue a mkinitrd command.  I've always avoided this in the past and just
compiled enough static drivers into the kernel to get it to boot as far as
having the root filesystem mounted.

Chris
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Chris Eilbeck
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