Re: initrd.img (alert the press! end-user-type compiles own kernel!)
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:27:47AM -0500, James Lindenschmidt wrote:
> Greetings. Yet another not-newbie, not-guru end-user-type
> question here.
>
> I'm still having trouble compiling the kernel. I scrapped
> the previous attempt using a kernel from kernel.org and got
> the source directly from debian.
>
> The kernel compiled OK, but when I updated LILO and ran it,
> I got the following error message:
>
> Fatal: open /initrd.img: No such file or directory
>
> I looked, and /initrd.img is a symlink pointing to
> /boot/initrd.img . Unfortunately, there is no
> /boot/initrd.img.
>
> It's possible that I accidentally deleted this file. How
> should I replace it? Where can I find it? Isn't it
> generated during the make-kpkg kernel_image?
If you are not using Debian kenrel or the debian kernel
make utility, you are not using initrd.img. So your can
delete it from lilo...
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