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:28 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: i386

Download:mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-28.i386.rpm
Build Date:Wed May 21 18:44:03 2008
Packager:
Size:892 KiB

Arch: x86_64

Download:mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-28.x86_64.rpm
Build Date:Wed May 21 17:45:07 2008
Packager:
Size:854 KiB

Changelog

* Fri Mar 28 17:00:00 2008 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 5.1.19.6-28
- Fix bad regexp in devicemapper dependency resolution code
  Resolves: rhbz#439371
- Re-do workaround for gfs2/lock_nolock dep brokenness
  Resolves: rhbz#438743
* Wed Mar 26 17:00:00 2008 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 5.1.19.6-27
- Fix initialization of "withusb" on s390/s390x
  Resolves: rhbz#432776
- Fix application of patch 15
  Resolves: rhbz#428723
- Fix netdev naming with drivers specified on the command line
  Resolves: rhbz#436509
* Wed Mar 19 17:00:00 2008 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 5.1.19.6-26
- Fix missing patch from -22 .
  Resolves: rhbz#368821

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