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mkinitrd - Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules.

License: GPL
Vendor: Scientific Linux CERN, http://cern.ch/linux
Description:
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.

Packages

mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-82.el5.i386 [480 KiB] Changelog by Brian C. Lane (2014-04-14): 
- Use ! instead of / when searching sysfs for ccis device
  Resolves: rhbz#988020
- Always include ahci module (except on s390) (bcl)
  Resolves: rhbz#978245
- Prompt to recreate default initrd (karsten)
  Resolves: rhbz#472764
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-81.el5_10.i386 [480 KiB] Changelog by Brian C. Lane (2013-09-17): 
- Add libsqlite3 to initrd when fips is used (wmealing)
  Resolves: rhbz#1006058
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-81.el5_9.i386 [480 KiB] Changelog by Brian C. Lane (2013-09-17): 
- Add libsqlite3 to initrd when fips is used (wmealing)
  Resolves: rhbz#1006058
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-80.el5_9.i386 [480 KiB] Changelog by Brian C. Lane (2013-05-15): 
- Rebuild with e2fsprogs-1.39-36.el5
  Resolves: rhbz#963559
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-79.el5.i386 [480 KiB] Changelog by Brian C. Lane (2012-09-19): 
- load Hyper-V modules first (bcl)
  Resolves: rhbz#852686
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-75.el5.i386 [478 KiB] Changelog by Brian C. Lane (2011-10-25): 
- Replace patch for (#593096) with one that works (bcl)
  Resolves: rhbz#593096
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-71.el5_7.1.i386 [470 KiB] Changelog by Brian C. Lane (2011-11-14): 
- Add mpath to the paths searched for DM devices (jruemker)
  Resolves: rhbz#753693
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-71.el5.i386 [468 KiB] Changelog by Brian C. Lane (2011-05-05): 
- Use vecho in modprobe.d patch
  Resolves: rhbz#564392
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-68.el5_6.1.i386 [468 KiB] Changelog by Brian C. Lane (2011-04-06): 
- Add module options from /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf (564392)
  Resolves: rhbz#694052
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-68.el5.i386 [464 KiB] Changelog by Martin Sivak (2010-12-23): 
- No iSCSI on s390
  Related: rhbz#664389
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-61.el5_5.2.i386 [462 KiB] Changelog by Brian C. Lane (2010-07-19): 
- Use location of bindings file from multipath.conf
  Resolves: rhbz#596134
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-61.el5_5.1.i386 [462 KiB] Changelog by Peter Jones (2010-04-15): 
- Update patch for 540641 to correctly use nash's builtin readlink
  Resolves: rhbz#578236
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-61.i386 [440 KiB] Changelog by Peter Jones (2010-03-08): 
- Use "sg" not "scsi_wait_scan" on RHEL-5
  Resolves: rhbz#460899 (#c56)
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-54.i386 [431 KiB] Changelog by Hans de Goede (2009-06-17): 
- Handle cciss controllers correctly in fips mode
  Resolves: rhbz#505108
- IA64 has /boot/efi instead of /boot, handle this correctly in fips mode
  Resolves: rhbz#505111
- Don't require prelink in fips mode
  Resolves: rhbz#505113
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-44.1.i386 [427 KiB] Changelog by Peter Jones (2009-04-17): 
- Supress failures if dm-raid45 modules are not present.
  Resolves: rhbz#496591
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-44.i386 [434 KiB] Changelog by Peter Jones (2008-12-17): 
- Include dm-raid45 and related modules if dmraid is in use.
  Resolves: rhbz#476866

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