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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?

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

OK it does work!

First distro I've used that does that.