Re: Installing kernel-image-2.4.22
Otto Wyss <otto.wyss@orpatec.ch> writes:
> 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".
Does that make lilo break?
> 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.
You must have used a kernel flavour with buildin network module
before. kernel-image-2.4.22 couldn't have known that. The default
kernel would have the network module loaded on boot but you choose not
to use that kernel.
Modconf is also just one of several possibilities. You can edit
etc/modules manually, use hotplug support or discover 1/2 instead.
Personally hotplug support sound smore and more appealing to me.
> 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.
It works perfectly without and modconf is in base.
> 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.
modprobe module; ifup -a; apt-get install modconf
Press shift while you boot and you still get a prompt.
Or use a rescue disk.
MfG
Goswin
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