Rebuilding the initial ram disk (initrd)

Installing new hardware may mean that new kernel need to be loaded when your server boots up. There’s a two step process to making a new initrd file:

 

First, add the appropriate line to your /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf which corresponds to your new kernel module.

Next, rebuild the initial ram disk after making a backup of the current one:

# cp /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img.bak
# mkinitrd -f initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r`

Reboot the server now and make sure the new driver is loaded properly.

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