Re: Where is Debian's initrd located?

From: Monique Y. Herman (spam_at_bounceswoosh.org)
Date: 09/30/03

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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:48:59 +0000 (UTC)

    On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:13:24 -0400, Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> penned:
    > I'm trying to edit my LILO config so that I can run debian (which is on
    > /dev/hde5).
    >
    > Where is the initrd for debian located?
    >
    > I currently have something like this for my debian entry:
    >
    > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4
    > label="Debian Linux"
    > root=/dev/hde5
    > initrd=/boot/???
    > append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
    > read-only
    >
    > I can't find any initrd file in /boot under the debian partition. Am I
    > missing something?
    >
    > Thanks in advance,
    >
    > Dan
    >

    Not all linux kernels use initrd. RedHat does by default, I think, but
    I don't think debian does. Here's my extremely simple lilo.conf entry:

    default=linux

    image=/boot/vmlinuz
            label=linux
            read-only 

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