no initrd image on install [solved]

[joeham]

I am doing an install on a multi boot system. All OS are linux distros

I use legacy grub. I am using ext3 for all distros.

I installed Salix using ext3 to one of my partitions. Since I already have a grub system going on its own partition, I selected don't install Lilo durring install.

All seemed to go well until I inspected the /boot dir and found a huge smp kernel but no corresponding *.img file. There is one diag.img file but I don't think that is the initrd needed for startup.

I recall one other slackware derived distro did this and some how I generated an initrd with the mkinitrd.

How can I make or get ahold of an initrd for my install?

[gapan]

Hi! Use of an initrd is not mandatory. You can boot with absolutely no problems at all without one, as support for all filesystems/controllers is built in the huge-smp kernel. However, you can read all about creating one in the README.initrd in any slackware server: ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/slackware/s ... DME.initrd

[joeham]

OK it does work!

First distro I've used that does that.