Repairing /boot

[Brigadier]

I am running Mandrkae 9.0 and wanted to set up Gentoo alongside of it.
In the process I had mounted my existing /boot during the install to /mnt/gentoo/boot

I needed to start over and clean up the mess from unpacking the stage tarball so I 'wisely' typed "rm -rf *". This had the unfortunate consequence of nuking the /boot files as well as what I meant to delete. I have managed to replace GRUB; the laptop still boots via Lilo because thankfully that is located in /etc/lilo.conf. However - I cannot find where the kernel image has gone (initrd.img, which I thought Lilo required to start booting.) Where would this file be locate normally and why would the system work without it?

[sa]

you dont need that initrd file, I belive that is so you can use scsi module and have them loaded before the kernel gets loaded... or something similar...
theres a tool to make a new one of thoses, i think its called mkinitrd,
or mabey ive lost my memory...