Kernel 2.6.18 and mkinitcpio coming soon

Question

phrakture wrote:
This is an announcement for those of you still using mkinitrd to boot your machines.
For some time now there has been a notice upon kernel install that mkinitrd will be replaced by mkinitcpio once the 2.6.18 series is released. That time is quickly approaching. To anyone who has not at least tried mkinitcpio (/boot/kernel26.img) is advised to try it and report any issues on the bug tracker before this goes live.
Thank you
You've been more than warned - lets not have another udev/initrd fiasco!

Answer 1

HOOKS="base udev autodetect sata filesystems"
mkinitcpio -v -g /boot/kernel26.img
:: Begin build
:: Parsing hook [base]
  adding  dir /proc
  adding  dir /sys
  adding  dir /dev
  adding node /dev/null
  adding node /dev/zero
  adding node /dev/console
  adding  dir /lib
  adding file /lib/klibc-u5tK0EIDXMXcX6WWDRrnsKG-fVk.so
  adding  dir /bin
  adding file /bin/cat
  adding file /bin/chroot
  adding file /bin/dd
  adding file /bin/false
  adding file /bin/fstype
  adding file /bin/gunzip
  adding file /bin/gzip
  adding file /bin/insmod
  adding file /bin/ipconfig
  adding file /bin/kill
  adding file /bin/kinit
  adding file /bin/ln
  adding file /bin/losetup
  adding file /bin/mdassemble
  adding file /bin/minips
  adding file /bin/mkdir
  adding file /bin/mkfifo
  adding file /bin/mknod
  adding file /bin/modinfo
  adding file /bin/modprobe
  adding file /bin/mount
  adding file /bin/nfsmount
  adding file /bin/nuke
  adding file /bin/parseblock
  adding file /bin/pivot_root
  adding file /bin/replace
  adding file /bin/run-init
  adding file /bin/sh
  adding file /bin/sleep
  adding file /bin/split
  adding file /bin/true
  adding file /bin/umount
  adding file /bin/uname
  adding file /bin/zcat
  adding file /init
  adding file /config
:: Parsing hook [udev]
  adding  dir /sbin
  adding file /sbin/udevd
  adding file /sbin/udevtrigger
  adding file /sbin/udevsettle
  adding  dir /etc
  adding  dir /etc/udev
  adding  dir /etc/udev/rules.d
  adding file /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules
  adding file /etc/start_udev
  adding  dir /lib/udev
  adding file /lib/udev/firmware.sh
  adding file /lib/udev/cdrom_id
  adding file /etc/udev/udev.conf
  adding  dir /hooks
  adding file /hooks/udev
:: Parsing hook [autodetect]
stdin: error 0
:: Parsing hook [sata]
  adding  dir /lib/modules
  adding  dir /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH
  adding  dir /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/kernel
  adding  dir /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/kernel/drivers
  adding  dir /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi
  adding file /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/libata.ko
  adding file /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/ata_piix.ko
  adding file /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.ko
  adding  dir /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/kernel/drivers/cdrom
  adding file /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.ko
  adding file /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/sr_mod.ko
:: Parsing hook [filesystems]
  adding  dir /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/kernel/fs
  adding  dir /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/kernel/fs/jbd
  adding file /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/kernel/fs/jbd/jbd.ko
  adding  dir /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/kernel/fs/ext3
  adding file /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko
  adding  dir /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/kernel/fs/reiserfs
  adding file /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko
  adding file /hooks/filesystems
:: Generating module dependancies
  adding file /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/modules.dep
  adding file /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/modules.alias
  adding file /lib/modules/2.6.17-ARCH/modules.symbols
:: Generating image '/boot/kernel26.img'...SUCCESS