Upgrading the kernel on a woody box
OK, I'm new to debian, so I probably screwed up something simple. This is
my second attempt to upgrade the kernel--it won't boot properly into the
new 2.4.12 kernel (I also tried 2.4.9 several weeks ago--same result). I
can still boot into my old kernel, however (2.2.19pre17)
I've downloaded the kernel-image-2.4.12-686 (and the corresponding headers,
source, and doc file)
I double checked to make sure the initrd=/boot/initrd line was added to
lilo.conf (I believe it was added automatically when I tried this the first
time, but I could be wrong). It's like the third uncommented line in the
file.
I made sure the initrd link pointed to the correct (2.4.12) file.
I made sure that the following were installed: devfds, initrd-tools,
iptables, mkcramfs, libxml2, libxml2-dev and usbmgr.
I added the following to my source.list:
deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main
And I ran apt-get update then apt-get dist-upgrade.
When I reboot, I get a lot of errors. They flash by fast--but this is the
general gist.
There was some error regarding partitions, cramfs and magic numbers.
Then there are a ton of missing module messages.
Then it tries to boot into X and fails--leaving me at a command line.
I do have basic functionality from the command line. If I restart and boot
into my old kernel, everything works.
Any ideas?
-Rich-
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