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I am building a custom kernel and trying to make it into an rpm using "make rpm" for easy distribution to other machines. Well it seems to be doing everything correctly but the problem is that it doesn't seem to be creating an initrd file. Any ideas?
Sorry, but this I don't know.
I think you always have to create the "initrd" in the target system after install the kernel, because it is a file system customized to that system. Mkinitrd needs to know the boot partition of that system to create the "/dev" directory. My best guess would be a post-install operation, if rpm creation permits it.
I never did an rpm creation.
You can take a look into initrd. All you need is to uncompress it to a file and mount it using "-o loop". You will see a tiny root fs, containing the modules needed to mount the real root partition, the device used by your root partition and a "linuxrc" script which install the modules, check the root fs, mounts it and do a pivot to it.
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