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Author Mkinitrd doesn't build initrd.img
Otto Wyss

2004-04-04, 10:33 pm

I've just build my new 2.6.4 kernel from the kernel sources but I can't
build the initrd.img because

mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-2.6.4.img /lib/modules/2.6.4
FATAL: Module ide_disk not found.
FATAL: Module ata_piix not found.
FATAL: Module sd_mod not found.

I've tried to look into modconf to remove these modules but I can't find
them, does anyone know how they are named there?

Then I tried to build them but I can't find them either in make
menuconfig.

There doesn't seems to be a -f force switch in mkinitrd to build an
image without these modules! IMO mkinitrd should build always an image
regardless of errors. Just assume my system would depend on a working
solution, after the reboot it would unusable if I hadn't though of a
failure.

O. Wyss

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Philipp Matthias Hahn

2004-04-05, 3:35 am

Hello Otto!

On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 10:35:32AM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-2.6.4.img /lib/modules/2.6.4
> FATAL: Module ide_disk not found.
> FATAL: Module ata_piix not found.
> FATAL: Module sd_mod not found.


I had the same problems on our servers with SCSI disks and an IDE DVD.
Look at /usr/sbin/mkinitrd:356 and remove those lines.

On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 10:35:32AM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> IMO a must in any case is a "/usr/share/doc/<packagename>/README.debian"
> which lists all possible "man ..." of this package. Each package which
> doesn't do this should get an serious bug.


dpkg -L <packagename> | grep man/man

BYtE
Philipp
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