On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:47:59AM -0600, mark@foresthaven.com wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:18:49AM -0400, Stephen Nosal wrote:
> > Folks -
> >
> > I've been having a terrible time attempting to upgrade my perfectly good
> > potato installation to the new woody
> > distribution including the 2.4 kernel. Each time I attempt to install the
> > kernel, I get a statement regarding initrd, and the upgrade fails.
Add this to your lilo.conf under the new kernel.
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.4-686
Change the initrd to point to the appropriate file on your system. Rerun
lilo, and reboot.
2.4 uses a ramdisk to boot. This hit me too.
Mike
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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca>
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a
good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be
dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925
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