Re: upgrade kernel from 2.2 to 2.4
I know this man! I did all but there is something in init script I guess.
Don't you get warnings about readonly root while booting? I do get a lot and
I wanna get rid of 'em. And the errors is understandable. the old 2.2 mounts
/dev/hdax as root and could write te log files on it, but the 2.4 mount
initrd.img as root so meanwhile the changing the root to actuale one it
couldn't write on it. Any tips?
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:29:02PM +0330, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote:
> > I got to upgrade my kernel from 2.2 to 2.4
> > It is ok but because 2.4 using initrd.img so there is some problems init
> > proccess. I tgives some errors about ReadOnly file system and also
> > couldn't find mtab.
> > Anybody have information about this matter?
>
> i just did that on my server at work -- when you do the install,
> lots of text flies by and of course some of it is important.
>
> TIP: you can scroll up and down your console buffer [and
> xterm or rxvt windows] using shift-pageUp and
> shift-pageDown.
>
> there's a line you need in your /etc/lilo.conf inside the
> "image=/vmlinuz" section:
>
> initrd=/initrd.img
>
> my whole stanza now looks like this -- pretty plain vanilla:
>
> image=/vmlinuz
> label=Linux
> read-only
> initrd=/initrd.img
> # restricted
> # alias=1
>
> of course, the install process should also make sure that the
> file /initrd.img exists -- here's mine:
>
> # ls -l /initrd.img
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root initrd.img -> /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-k6
>
> the file it's linked to will depend on your architecture -- mine
> is an AMD K6.
>
> and whenever you munge lilo.conf, be sure to run lilo
> afterwards, which reads the config file and actually writes the
> boot info to your disk.
>
> of course, there may be other gremlins loose in your situation,
> but this is something easy to try.
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