Arch Linux

surfer_rosa

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From: Glasgow, UK

Registered: 2005-02-21

Posts: 43

Arch Install and creating Initrd

Hi. I'm a pretty big arch fan but for some reason arch never installs right for me.

For 0.7 it was the files in /boot/grub that didn't exist (stage2, reiserfs etc) but i booted into knoppix and copied them accross.

Now with 0.7.1 it's seems to be initrd26.img thats causing grub error 15.

I only have System.map26, diag1.img, grub, kconfig26 and vmlinuz26. How do i get an initrd26.img?

Cheers in advance.

liem

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Registered: 2006-04-29

Posts: 71

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Re: Arch Install and creating Initrd

The wiki got a good article on that.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Initrd

Hope it works.

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ScriptDevil

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From: In Front of My PC

Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 253

Re: Arch Install and creating Initrd

Just Enquiring, nothing seriously meant.:
How are u a big ArchLinux Fan if u cant get it working??

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barebones

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Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 235

Re: Arch Install and creating Initrd

Sounds to me like he has gotten them working, it's just been messy though.

mkinitrd auto

will generate a initrd for the kernel you are currently running, but if you haven't gotten grub to start up your kernel, I don't think it will work. In this case, I think you have to do a

mkinitrd kernel_version=yourkernelhere

I looked around (very breifly) and couldn't find any documentation on this so unfortunatly I can't point towards anything to look at.