mkinitrd 5.0.17-9ark built on dockyard-devel

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mkinitrd has been built in dockyard-devel.

Name        : mkinitrd                     Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 5.0.17                            Vendor: (none)
Release     : 9ark                          Build Date: Mon 10 Sep 2007 08:54:02 AM CDT
Install Date: (not installed)               Build Host: localhost.localdomain
Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM: (none)
Size        : 111083                           License: GPL
Signature   : (none)
Summary     : Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules.
Description :
Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ram filesystem
(initramfs) images.
These images are often used to preload the block device modules
(SCSI or RAID) needed to access the root filesystem.

In other words, generic kernels can be built without drivers for any
SCSI adapters which load the SCSI driver as a module.  Since the
kernel needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able to
address the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used.  The initial
ramdisk is loaded by the operating system loader (normally GRUB) and
is available to the kernel as soon as the ramdisk is loaded.  The
ramdisk image loads the proper SCSI adapter and allows the kernel to
mount the root filesystem.  The mkinitrd program creates such a
ramdisk using information found in the /etc/modprobe.conf file.
* Mon Sep 10 2007 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[email protected]> 5.0.17-9ark
- Fix installation on boxes with AHCI SATA chips
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