---
name: "bootcdmkinitrd"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "bootcd-mkinitrd"
version: "2.48"
release: "Debian 3.1 (Sarge)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bootcdmkinitrd"
---

# bootcdmkinitrd(1)

rebuild initrd image to use with bootcd

## NAME

bootcdmkinitrd - rebuild initrd image to use with bootcd

## SYNOPSIS

**bootcdmkintrd \[-s\]**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents the command **bootcdmkinitrd** The **bootcdmkinitrd** script helps to configure your initrd to use **discover** and  **autodetection of boot device.** It is only useful if you are using initrd to boot. All standard debian 2.4 kernels are using initrd.

Bootcd is designed to copy your actual system to cd. This means, if you want to use  **discover** and  **autodetection of boot device** on your bootcd, you have to install, configure and test **discover** and  **bootcdmkinitrd** on your system first.

To use **bootcdmkinitrd** your actual running kernel must already use initrd.  **Bootcdmkinitrd** will then reconfigure your initrd. It configures /etc/mkinitrd/\* and calls **mkinitrd** to recreate a  new /boot/initrd.img-\<kernel-version\> which uses  **discover** to detect the actual hardware at boottime.

A bootcd that is created from a system that uses  **discover** can easily boot on other systems, if the necessary modules are compiled.

The initrd probes automaticly for the bootcd-device, if the kernel option root="auto" is given. This is done by the script bootcdproberoot.

## OPTIONS

- **-s**

  means silent and canbe used to to disable interactive questions and to try to ignore errors.

## WARNING

The **bootcdmkinitrd** script changes your running /boot/initrd.img-\<kernel-version\> afterwards **lilo** will be called.

With deinstalling bootcdmkinitrd your initrd will not be  changed. But the prerm script tries to make sure, **mkinitrd** can be called  without errors, resulting from having installed bootcd-mkinitrd before.

## OPTIONS

No options are available.

## SEE ALSO

[bootcd(1)](/bootcd/1.md), [bootcd2disk(1)](/bootcd2disk/1.md), [bootcdflopcp(1)](/bootcdflopcp/1.md), [bootcdwrite(1)](/bootcdwrite/1.md), [discover(1)](/discover/1.md)

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Bernd Schumacher \<bernd.schumacher@hp.com\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).