Oh wah... look at mkinitrd and Documentation/initrd.txt
You can make a script for this just like you can make a script for other
stuff. Once done the task is no different from the standard 'make
install' step for the kernel build.
> Personally, for diskless machines which boots the kernel directly (no lilo,
> no syslinux, etc) this is a good thing. (Or atleast I believe so) I've
> never used ip autoconfig using arp except once where I had a digiport server
> that would do this but not bootp. Anyway, I atleast hope that bootp
> autoconfig isn't removed from the kernel for this reason.
Anywhere that a kernel image exists, an initrd image can exist.
Jeff
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