Re: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel
Interesting. My lilo.conf has no line about initrd and dmesg reports
nothing on ramdisks for my 2.4.7 system. What type of systems need a
ramdisk to boot initially?
--mike
On 06 Aug 2001 11:51:33 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> 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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