Installing kernel-image-2.4.22
I tried to upgrade the 2.2 kernel from Woody to 2.4.22 and installed
kernel-image-2.4.22. During installation a large text but barely
interpretable text about initrd.img is shown. Why can't the install make
a fully correct lilo.conf by itself? Besides the text is wrong instead
of "initrd=initrd.img" it should be "initrd=/initrd.img".
So far so good but after installation I don't have network access
anymore, probably because 2.4.22 has the network driver as a module.
Instead of this sermone about initrd, it'd be better if this fact were
mentioned in the installation. A hint to use modconf after installation
would be very helpful.
The question remains why kernel-image packages don't require the modconf
packages. It seems to me obvious that modconf has to be run after a
kernel upgrade.
How do I install modconf without a network connect? Okay just boot into
the old kernel with network support. Well the kernel-image package adds
the second entry to lilo.conf but forgets to uncomment the prompt and
timeout parameteres. I don't know what would happened if the new kernel
wouldn't run.
O. Wyss
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