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Re: Stock debian kernel won't boot on knoppix installed D600



>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:

[snip! Knoppix 3.3 install with apt-gotten 2.4.25 kernel from debian testing]

> Unfortunately, the new kernel won't boot.  All that happens, is that
> LILO writes the following text to the console:
> 	Loading Linux.............
> 	BIOS data check successful.

> Then the screen turns black, and the two indicators to the left of the
> power button starts blinking, and that's all that happens.
[snip!]
> Could the problem be in the lilo.conf file?  The lilo.conf file is
> also attached.

That's where the problem was:

> image=/vmlinuz
> 	label=Linux
> 	initrd=/boot/initrd.gz

I changed the last line here to
 	initrd=/initrd.img
reran lilo, and rebooted and selected the default kernel in lilo.

This is typed when running a debian 2.4.25 kernel. :-)

Thanx to Bjørn Mork for pointing this out!


- Steinar




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