On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 07:17:24PM -0400, David Abrahams wrote: | | "Tom Cook" <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au> wrote : | | > The kernel upgrade should not be any worries at all. | > | > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.x-yourarch | | Okay... | | <<You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version 2.4.18-386) | This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to use | initrd. (An initrd image is a kernel image that expects to use an INITial | Ram Disk to mount a minimal root file system into RAM and use that for | booting). | As a reminder, in order to configure lilo, you need to | add an 'initrd=/initrd.img' to the image=/vmlinuz | stanza of your /etc/lilo.conf | I repeat, You need to configure your boot loader. If you have already done | so, and you wish to get rid of this message, please put | `do_initrd = Yes' | in /etc/kernel-img.conf. Note that this is optional, but if you do not, | you'll contitnue to see this message whenever you install a kernel | image using initrd. | Do you want to stop now? [Y/n] | | ... edits /etc/lilo.conf ... adds a missing /etc/kernel-img.conf as | specified ... Umm, that's not what was specified. In your lilo.conf, you need to make mention of the initrd image. Look in /boot and you'll see a file named initrd.img-<version>. You need to tell lilo to load that as the initrd image. I don't use lilo so I can't tell you what to put in your lilo.conf, but it certainly has nothing to do with /etc/kernel-img.conf. That file is a config file for the kernel image package. The line it mentions tells it not to give you that warning anymore. My suggestion is to either switch to grub (and then I can give you config lines) or to read lilo's manual and see how to specify an initrd image. HTH, -D -- A kindhearted woman gains respect, but ruthless men gain only wealth. Proverbs 11:16 http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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