Re: installing kernel-image
You have to pass the path to the initrd image. aboot.conf here:
0:1/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20 ro root=/dev/sda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20
1:1/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 ro root=/dev/sda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18
Ionut
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:16:39PM +0200, extern.Lars.Oeschey@audi.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm first trying again the kernel-image of 2.4.21.
> I did a apt-get for the kernel-image, and got told to configure my
> bootloader.
> It already happened to me when trying to install a kernel-image, that the
> machine wouldn't come up again (I have no root I want to scream).
> So before rebooting I want to be sure to have everything correct ;)
>
> What I find a bit confusing, is that I now have a link /initrd.img that
> points to a initrd in /boot. So far so good, but I can't find any reference
> to that initrd.img elsewhere. I think at boot time the bootloader needs to
> know what initrd to load? My /etc/abbot.conf just looks like this:
>
> 0:2/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/rd/c0d0p2
>
> is that enough? On my last install try I think my problem was that
> initrd.img was not loaded...
>
> Lars
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-request@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
--
***************
* Ionut Georgescu
* http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/
* Registered Linux User #244479
*
* "In Windows you can do everything Microsoft wants you to do; in Unix you
* can do anything the computer is able to do."
Reply to: