Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work
Thank you (-:
I think I can upgrade the kernel without initrd trouble in the futer.
And I am trying to compile a kernel without initrd.
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 03:33, der.hans wrote:
> Am 29. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Tao Liu so:
> > Yes! The problem is resolved!
> > I am using 2.4.7 now.
> > Thank you!
> >
> > But what does initrd mean?
> > Is it new for 2.4?
>
> The initial-ramdisk ( initrd ) is a way for Linux to cheat. It needs to
> because x86 architecture sucks :).
>
> There's a very small amount of adressable memory for the kernel to load
> from. If the kernel is too big, you can't load all of it. The initrd is a
> way of pulling a secondary chunk of kernel off disk after the main chunk of
> kernel has been loaded. I don't know the particulars of how it it works.
>
> > On Sunday 29 July 2001 22:50, you wrote:
> > > have you got the line
> > >
> > > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-686
>
> Instead of this, put initrd=/boot/initrd and if linux.OLD uses and initrd,
> then put initrd=/boot/initrd.old in the stanza for it.
>
> In /boot soft link from the initrd-<version> to initrd for the kernel
> you're trying to use and from initrd-<version> to initrd.old for the old
> kernel.
>
> This is better than specifying initrd-<version> in lilo.conf because the
> upgrade tools seem to recognize the soft links and update them you you
> install new kernel-image packages. In other words, when you install
> kernel-image-<newversion> everything will automagically point at the right
> thing and continue working.
>
> It seems that starting with 2.4.x the kernel image packages are depending
> on initrds. I've had to fix the soft links and lilo.conf on every box I've
> updated to 2.4.x via packages, though. Don't know why that's borken and
> haven't researched it enough to file a bug report. Maybe I should anyway as
> it keeps coming up on this list...
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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