RE: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel
Not sure how to make one. There should be a faq somewhere. What do you
need in it is the real question. Maybe you can steal it from the root
disk from the installation set. I checked the initrd man page and I'm
still wondering how to use it. I'm also still confused why you don't
want to compile your own kernel.
--mike
On 06 Aug 2001 12:49:09 -0400, Stephen Nosal wrote:
> so, is it possible that the standard build requires a ramdisk, but if you
> 'roll your own' it is not necessary?
>
> If the above is true, and I wish to install the standard build kernel, how
> do I go about putting together this ramdisk and configuring it correctly? is
> it as simple as an additional line in lilo? What creates the
> 'initrd-2.4.4-686' file?
>
> - Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael P. Soulier [mailto:msoulier@storm.ca]
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 12:19 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:04:51AM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I understood that all 2.4 kernels do, but I suppose it depends on
> whether
> or not the builder of the kernel used one?
>
> Mike
>
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> necessarily a
> good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could
> be
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