Re: make-kpkg and initrd

[Daniel Freedman <freedman@ccmr.cornell.edu>]

Hi Daniel,

> compilation and install of the deb package goes well but it's not bootable : 
> get a kernel panic  : 
> Can't find a valid RAM disk image at 0. 

This might be an obvious thing to check for, but I'll suggest it anyway:

The message upon installing the initrd kernel instructs one to make
sure that the following line is present in lilo.conf before running
'lilo':

initrd=/boot/initrd

However, the standard make-kpkg install process with '--initrd' flag
actually creates the file /boot/initrd-2.4.x 

I generally just make a symlink between /boot/initrd and the specific
kernel version, such as /boot/initrd-2.4.9, but of course you could
just specify this in the initrd line in lilo.conf.

I'm guessing you've probably already made sure that this isn't the
issue, but I thought I'd suggest it regardless.  Incidentally, should
I maybe file this inconsistency between message and actual file as a
bug (maybe severity wishlist)?  If so, which specific kernel-source or
kernel-image package should it go against (I just checked the BTS and
didn't find any similar bug report, yet)?

Hope this helps,
Daniel


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Daniel A. Freedman
Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics
Department of Physics
Cornell University