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On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:27:29PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> Thanks Prarit,
> 
> I updated mkinitrd from 4.1.18 to 4.2.15 and udev from 039 to 058.
> This appears to have cured it on my work machine, I will try the
> other box later.
> 
> Looking at Documentation/Changes, which appears to still be the
> official repository for required tool versions, it seems somewhat
> dated, and makes no mention of mkinitrd version requirements.

One of the reasons for that is that there is not generic mkinitrd.
Every distribution has it's own variant.