Re: Downgrading glibc + upgrading kernel?

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 07:40:33PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> 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.
> 

I'm not sure if it's the default but I have /boot/initrd as a symlink
pointing to my desired initrd file.

I haven't used debian kernels (or initrd) in a while, so that could be a
remnant done manually...  But I think kernel-img can be configured to create
the needed symlink.

Anyway,

lilo.conf:

image=/vmlinuz
        label=Linux
        read-only
        initrd=/initrd.img


that should help.

Mike