Re: Debian and Atheros Wireless card

[Charlie <aries-tao@bigpond.com>]

abhishek soni wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> Thank you very much for all your help in installing the kernel source. 
> But I am having a small problem. Initially I had  the 2.4.27-1-386 
> kernel installed. And the kernel source I downloaded was 2.4.27 (Only 
> one available in this series).  I followed all of the instructions and 
> then I re-boot my machine. At that point I noticed that there were two 
> new kernels installed:
>     Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27  and another similar one with 
> recovery mode.
>
> However, when I select this kernel, it shows a kernel panic and the 
> message is cannot log into hda6.
>
> I then logged into the existing kernel and found that the essential 
> difference is that the line,
> " initrd        /initrd.img-2.4.27-1-386 "
> seems to be missing. This is a file in my /boot/ directory and a 
> similar file for my new kernel seems to be missing.
>
> This is just my guess, I may be completely wrong :)
>
> So I am not sure what is going on here and if I did something wrong.
> Sincerely,
> Abhishek.
>
> <snip>

Make an initrd.img for the new kernel.

To do this, boot into a useable kernel and open a terminal as root. Type 
in the following command: "mkinitrd /boot/initrd-<kernel version>.img 
<kernel version>". <kernel version> is the directory in /lib/modules 
that contains the modules for the kernel you compiled. When this command 
is done, edit your lilo.conf, or grub menu.lst as the case may be, to 
use that initrd image file.

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