[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH] create an initrd for dom0 in install.shscript

[Sean Dague <japh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:15:38AM -0500, Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh wrote:
> Harry,
> 
> > +    mkinitrd -o $dst/boot/initrd-$i.img $i
> 
> One comment that I have is that "mkinitird" options differs for
> different distros. For example on SUSE distros it is "mkinitrd -k
> <kernel> -I <initrd>". Is it possible to have the command change
> depending on the distro?

For what it is worth, here is the break down of the Mandriva tool.



NAME
       mkinitrd - creates initial ramdisk images for preloading modules

SYNOPSIS
       mkinitrd [--version] [-v] [-f]
                [--preload=module] [--with=module]
                [--omit-scsi-modules] [--omit-raid-modules]
                [--image-version] [--fstab=fstab] [--nocompress]
                [--builtin=module] [--nopivot] [--noudev]
                [--allow-missing] [--tmpdir=tmpdir]
                [--initrdfs=fs] [--dsdt[=dsdt.aml]]
                [--lvm-version=1|2] [--force-usb]
                image kernel-version



        -Sean

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Sean Dague
IBM Linux Technology Center                     email: japh@xxxxxxxxxx
Open Hypervisor Team                           alt: sldague@xxxxxxxxxx

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