Linux System - Table 12 > Packages - Table 1 & 2 > mkinitrd

\"mkinitrd creates filesystem images which are suitable for use as Linuxinitial ramdisk (initrd) images. Such images are often used forpreloading the block device modules (such as IDE, SCSI or RAID) whichare needed to access the root filesystem. mkinitrd automatically loadsfilesystem modules (such as ext3 and jbd), IDE modules, allscsi_hostadapter entries in /etc/modules.conf, and raid modules if thesystem's root partition is on raid, which makes it simple to build anduse kernels using modular device\"