RE: Kernel Panic~: Rebuild Kernel: miniHOWTO draft .001
Russell,
Ok...I am going to remake my package...without initrd as I thought it not
such a good idea to have my main file system as a module and so included it
in the kernel.
You say: Backup your HDD. Easy for you to say: I come from Windows where I
press two buttons on Drive Image to backup my whole system. Here I have been
working for a month just to try and set up so I can use partimage!
Best Wishes!
Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Russell [mailto:rjshaw@iprimus.com.au]
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 6:12 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic~: Rebuild Kernel: miniHOWTO draft .001
Michael Olds wrote:
>
> Russel...noted and I will do a revision shortly...however I got as far as
> making the package with the --initrd option and managed to control my
> fingers long enough to read the caution about editing lilo at the end...so
I
> have not installed my package. I am using ext3, and I am not sure if it
was
> you, but someone this morning said I needed to go initrd. But I see my
> current setup using the bf24 kernel does not use initrd (or, at least it
is
> not mentioned in lilo.conf and I can't find the image in /boot)(but the
new
> kernel is not bf24 it is 2.4.18) But I do remember using it in the setup
> before the most recent install (very confused at this point). I am reading
> round that on a one-box system it shouldn't be needed...I do have SCSI
> support enabled (for scsi emulation) as a module. So the question is: do I
> need it, and if so, how do I go about getting it in there?
read: http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-kernel.en.html
it says: mv /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot/<whatever name>
I have /usr/src/linux as a symlink to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18
I'm using ext3, and you don't need initrd. IIRC, you only need initrd
if your filesystem is a module and not compiled into the kernel, so
at least CramFS needs to be built in if nothing else is. Backup your
HDD. If you get a kernel panic because of lilo, you can usually still
boot in using the downloaded debian rescue disk.
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