System Environment/Base

mkinitrd: Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules.

Name:mkinitrd Vendor:Scientific Linux
Version:5.1.19.6 License:GPL
Release:44.1 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: x86_64

Download:mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-44.1.x86_64.rpm
Build Date:Wed Jun 10 05:38:32 2009
Packager:
Size:870 KiB

Arch: i386

Download:mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-44.1.i386.rpm
Build Date:Wed Jun 10 05:38:31 2009
Packager:
Size:907 KiB

Changelog

* Fri Apr 17 17:00:00 2009 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 5.1.19.6-44.1
- Supress failures if dm-raid45 modules are not present.
  Resolves: rhbz#496591
* Wed Dec 17 16:00:00 2008 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 5.1.19.6-44
- Include dm-raid45 and related modules if dmraid is in use.
  Resolves: rhbz#476866
* Mon Dec 15 16:00:00 2008 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 5.1.19.6-43
- Fix option passing in mountCommand
  Resolves: rhbz#476537

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