On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 01:40:05PM -0400, Rob Dupcak wrote: > Last night I tried to install kernel-image-2.6.6-1-generic, but ran into > two problems... > 1) While installing (apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.6-1-generic), I > saw a handful of unaligned trap errors from depmod. However everything > completed just fine after that. (As far as I know). Is this even a > problem? > 2) While booting, I got a message such as "RAMDISK too large!", then it > couldn't mount a root filesystem and then panic'ed. > I had this last problem with 2.6.5-1-generic too. > Any suggestions for what I'm screwing up? Or how I can resolve the > problems? If the libc problem isn't it, you may simply need to increase your allowed initrd size on the kernel commandline. This can be done with the ramdisk_size=xxxxx option in your /etc/aboot.conf. > Should I just stick with the kernel images at: > http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/fixed-alpha-kernels/ ? > This is on an LX164 system. You may find that these kernels are necessary anyway on an LX164 system, but this is unrelated to the problem you're currently fighting with. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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