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Operating Systems Linux Debian change initramfs by hand? Post 302268390 by otheus on Monday 15th of December 2008 02:19:43 PM
Old 12-15-2008
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.

Code:
$ mkdir /tmp/initrd.tmp ; cd /tmp/initrd.tmp
$ <extract>
$ du -sk . 
$ # use size reported above for: $blocks
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/initrd.img bs=1024 count=$blocks
$ /sbin/mke2fs -F -m 0 -b 1024 /tmp/initrd.img $blocks
$ mount /tmp/initrd.img /mnt/initrd -t ext2 -o loop=/dev/loop0

If that works, copy the files from /tmp/initrd.tmp into /mnt/initrd. Afterwards:
Code:
$ umount /mnt/initrd
$ gzip /tmp/initrd.img

Now move it to /boot. Good luck!
 

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MKDUMPRD(8)							   User Manuals 						       MKDUMPRD(8)

NAME
mkdumprd - (Re)build the initramfs for kdump SYNOPSIS
mkdumprd [-h] [-q] [-f] [-k kernelver] [-i opts] DESCRIPTION
mkdumprd (re-)builds the kdump initrd. For kdump, a special initrd is used because o the kdump initrd should include network modules and network configuration (and therefore is larger as the normal initrd used for booting), o the kdump initrd should use no splash screen, o the kdump initrd includes kdumptool(8) and all required libraries. This script calls mkinitrd(8) with all required parameters. If the initrd already exists, it checks first if the configuration file or the kernel are newer, and only rebuilds the initrd if necessary. OPTIONS
All option parsing is done via the getopt(3) function, and therefore follows all standard command line parsing rules. -h | --help Shows help output and exits. -k kernelversion Specifies the kernel version. If no version is specified and also no kernel or initrd are specified, then mkdumprd uses kdumptool(8) to find out the correct kernel and initrd. -K kernel Specifies the kernel binary. If you specify that option, also specify -I. -I initrd Specifies the resulting initrd. If you specify that option, also specify -K. -q Be quiet. Don't output status messages. Used to call mkdumprd(8) from /etc/init.d/kdump init script. -i parameters Append the specified parameters to mkinitrd(8) call. FILES
/etc/sysconfig/kdump Kdump configuration. See kdump(5). BUGS
Please report bugs and enhancement requests at https://bugzilla.novell.com. COPYING
Copyright (c) 2008 Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later. SEE ALSO
kdumptool(8), mkinitrd(8), http://en.opensuse.org/Kdump kdump 0.8.1 07/05/2010 MKDUMPRD(8)
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