The method I described works as of Linux 2.6.13 (or before FC3) If you are using an older version (uname -k) perhaps you have to create a filesystem. See "Manually building a custom initial RAM disk" at Linux initial RAM disk (initrd) overview.
If that works, copy the files from /tmp/initrd.tmp into /mnt/initrd. Afterwards:
Now move it to /boot. Good luck!
How do you get an awk output into columns i.e.
awk (print $1,$2,$3) doesn't come out into nice columns but lots of lines of txt want something more like.
I am crap
at unix so
give me a
hand thx Rich (3 Replies)
Hi,
I remember once seeing a way to get the left most string in a word.
Let's say: a="First.Second.Third" (separated by dot)
echo ${a#*.} shows --> Second.Third
echo ${a##*.} shows --> Third
How do I get the the left most string "First" Or "First.Second" ???
Tried to replace #... (2 Replies)
i have a script in sh. with awk, e.g. want to list all the contents of a subdirectory an a tabular way.
ej: outoput
directory1
subdirectory1 subdirectory2 subdirectory3
file1 filen file2 filez
file2 ... filen+1 ... (1 Reply)
guys,
i am writing a .ksh file to ssh to a remote machine and change all occurances of .ixf to .WIP like this :
-->>> for i in *.ixf do echo $i done mv $i $i.WIP exit <<---
--> this returns .ixf.WIP - i can live with that.
then i need to sftp from another remote machine, copy the files... (5 Replies)
Is there a patch available to support initramfs on the 2.4 kernel? We can't upgrade to 2.6 for legacy purposes. All I found on google were early references to how initramfs is better than the 2.4 initrd.
Thanks much! (0 Replies)
Long story short, I had a ps3 with both Lenny and Sid repositories. Knowing this is a bad idea and that Lenny is being deprecated I decided I wanted to move everything to Sid. I changed my repos and ran apt-get-update, upgrade, dist-upgrade. Had one warning during the apt-get upgrade that... (0 Replies)
Hello,
I am working on an Urdu to Hindi dictionary which has the following structure:
a=b
a=c
n=d
n=q
and so on.
i.e. Headword separated from gloss by a =
I am giving below a live sample
بتا=बता
بتا=बित्ता
بتا=बुत्ता
بتان=बतान
بتان=बितान
بتانا=बिताना
I need the following... (3 Replies)
Imagine I have an unbootable system where I need to update the kernel image using update-initramfs.
I have seen numerous examples online which show the following
$ mount -t proc none /mnt/ubuntu/proc
$ mount -o bind /dev /mnt/ubuntu/dev
$ mount -o bind /sys /mnt/ubuntu/sys
After that we... (8 Replies)
Hi all,
In Oracle, I am using SQL*Plus and selecting all rows in a table and spooling to a file as pipe delimited. I have to use pagesize 0 but unfortunately, using this option excludes the header and I can't get around having it to display the header fields.
So to get around this, I have to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: newbie_01
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
update-initramfs.conf
UPDATE-INITRAMFS.CONF(5) update-initramfs.conf manual UPDATE-INITRAMFS.CONF(5)NAME
update-initramfs.conf - configuration file for update-initramfs
DESCRIPTION
The configuration file allows one to disable the update action from update-initramfs.
GENERAL VARIABLES
update_initramfs
Default is yes for running the latest initramfs-tools hooks in the newest Linux image. Setting it to all updates any known
initramfs. It is possible to set it to no for remote servers or boxes where conservative manners needs to be applied. This disables
the update_initramfs -u call.
backup_initramfs
If set update_initramfs keeps an .bak file of the previous initramfs. If unset the backup initramfs will not be kept.
FILES
/etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf
AUTHOR
The initramfs-tools are written by Maximilian Attems <maks@debian.org>, Jeff Bailey <jbailey@raspberryginger.com> and numerous others.
SEE ALSO initramfs.conf(5), initramfs-tools(8), mkinitramfs(8), update-initramfs(8).
Linux 2010/04/05 UPDATE-INITRAMFS.CONF(5)