Re: kernel upgrading
Prasad,
Thanks for your reply,
I don't seen any initrd file in /boot yeas
vmlinuz-2.4.19-k6 is there which is obvious. Why
initrd was not installed?
One more thing won't a message craete a new thread.. I
am not sure please correct me.
Thanks,
Nitin
--- Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
> "Shyamal" == Shyamal Prasad
> <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net> writes:
>
> "np" == np rpr <np_rpr@yahoo.com> writes:
> np> Hi All, I am a new debian user. and am
> trying to upgrade my
> np> machine to 2.4.19, I downloaded the image
> and tried deb -i
> np> kernel-image.. it told me to add
> initrd=/initrd under vmlinuz,
> np> I did that but when I tried lilo.. I got the
> error that initrd
> np> doesn't exist. According to the message I am
> supposed to edit
> np> /etc/kernel-img.conf. But I couldn't find
> this file?
>
> Shyamal> Some unasked for advice to a new user:
> please start a new
> Shyamal> thread when asking for help or changing
> topics. Don't
> Shyamal> just reply to an existing message. Some
> of us actually do
> Shyamal> use threaded mail/news readers ;-)
>
> Shyamal> When you installed your kernel, it was
> probably called
> Shyamal> something like kernel-image-2.4.18-k7
> (for example, this
> Shyamal> specific name is the one I am using).
> The architecture
> Shyamal> specific extension -k7 may or may not
> be there, but the
> Shyamal> initrd image has the same naming
> convention as the kernel
> Shyamal> deb file name. The initrd file for the
> image above is
> Shyamal> /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-k7.
>
> Shyamal> Look in the /boot directory, and use
> the correct name in
> Shyamal> /etc/lilo.conf.
>
> Doh! I'm giving bad advice. *Slap*. These Debian
> boxen are *so* stable
> it's been months since I installed a kernel ;-)
>
> While what I said earlier is correct, the standard
> Debian install will
> link /initrd.img (not the .img at the end) to the
> correct initrd image
> in /boot. So you should check that /initrd.img is a
> link to a file in
> /boot/ that is probably named something like
> /boot/initrd.img-2.4.19-586tsc or whatever.
>
> Unless you messed with lilo.conf or your
> kernel-image .deb is broken,
> this should have actually worked the first time.
> Perhaps you just
> missed the .img at the end?
>
> Cheers!
> Shyamal
>
>
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