On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 02:41:30PM -0600 or thereabouts, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from S.D.A.: > > On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 01:36:26PM -0600 or thereabouts, s. keeling wrote: > > > You'll need to move kernel modules out of the way if the new kernel's > > > /lib/modules/`uname -r` exists already; apt-get will warn about this if > > > > I'm not sure I understand this. Could you explain a little more in detail? > > If you've previously installed a 2.4.25-1-386 kernel, along with it > came /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-386/*, and apt-get/aptitude will refuse to > clobber it (feature!) when installing a newer one. If you haven't > tried this before, that directory won't exist, and this warning is > irrelevant. > > If that dir does exist: > > mv /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-386 /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-386_old > > will solve the problem. Ah OK, I'm kosher, as I haven't attempted to install another kernel on this box. :) > > > If this kernel uses initrd (likely), you'll need to add an > > > initrd=... line to your grub/lilo config, and re-run lilo if using > > > lilo. > > > > I've seen that warning before, and perhaps I'm slow, but what goes there > > exactly, and where in my liloconf do I put it? initrid=(name of my kernel image?) > > This is my grub kernel stanza: > > ------------------------------------- > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.18-1-686 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-1-686 root=/dev/hda9 ro hdc=scsi vga=1 acpi=off > initrd /initrd.img-2.4.18-1-686 > savedefault > ------------------------------------- > > My /boot is a separate partition, which is why it appears everything's > in / (root). You'll want lilo to know where your kernel is (Debian > usually makes a link /vmlinuz -> /path/to/your/kernel/vmlinuz-2.4.25-1-386) > and say initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.25-1-386. Excellent, I can follow this. Thank-you very much for your time and help! -- Steve +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sunday May 23 2004 04:46:02 PM EDT +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Morton's Law: If rats are experimented upon, they will develop cancer.
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