Re: Kernel panic 2.6.8-9, unable to boot at all

["ocl@arayan.com" <ocl@arayan.com>]

John Goerzen wrote on 2004-10-30 18:10:
Hi John,

> You can try my DFS CD from http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs.

Thank you.

I am not being much a Linux person, yet --I am just a tad
above newby level :-)

I checked your site and DFS files are all non-amd64, yet
there is an amd64 image in there

http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/vmlinuz-2.6.6-amd64

If I placed it in the /boot of the machine (under knoppix),
would it work with these in grub

<example>
title John Goerzen's Debian GNU/Linux, kernel
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.6-amd64 root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd        /???????.img
savedefault
boot
</example>

In which case, do I just delete the 'initrd' line?

> As a general rule, I never use the initrd kernels for just some of
> these reasons.  It's too error-prone.  Once you have your machine
> installed, you can build your own kernel, and then the whole need for
> the initrd kernels goes away.  (Yes, they're useful if you have to
> have a "generic" kernel, but as far as I'm concerned, that's where the
> usefulness ends.)

I suppose I will have to do just that one day. ATM, I am just
not brave enough to compile my own kernels :->

Cheers,
Ray