Re: initrd.img (alert the press! end-user-type compiles own kernel!)
Adam Majer Spoke Thusly:
> 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...
No, that's the point. I'm trying to do this The Debian Way,
using apt-get install kernel-source and make-dpkg
kernel_image.
How can I replace the /boot/initrd.img?
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James Lindenschmidt
JWL@maine.rr.com
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