Re: upgrading to kernel 2.4.7 in debian

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

Hi,

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Peter Ross wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am currently running Debian testing distribution and I am attempting
> to get kernel 2.4.7 to boot.
> 
> It boots to a shell prompt and then nothing happens.
> I cannot even run ls.
> 
> Here is the relevant section from my lilo.conf.
> 
> image=/vmlinuz.new
>         label=new
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-686
>         root=/dev/ram0
>         init=/linuxrc
>         read-only
>         optional
> 
What you are trying to do here is to boot from an initial ramdisk. You
probably want to boot from your harddisk. Try this as lilo.conf:

lba32
boot=/dev/sda
root=/dev/sda1
install=/boot/boot.b

map=/boot/map
prompt
timeout=100

image=/vmlinuz.new
        label=Linux
        read-only

and run 'lilo' to activate the changes. This will boot the new kernel and
mount /dev/sda1 as the root.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan