Re: Kernel panic booting woody 2.4.18 "root=301"

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

Tom Schutter wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 22:30, Travis Crump wrote:
> > You need a line:
> > initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.19-bf2.4
> > in the image section of your lilo.conf[assuming initrd.img-2.4.19-bf2.4 
> > exists, it should or something very similarly named].  Also, it is my 
> > understanding that 2.4.19-bf2.4 is only supposed to be used for 
> > installation and you should install a 'real' kernel once you have your 
> > system up and running. apt-cache search kernel-image and apt-get install 
> > the one that looks appropriate for your system.  This is not to say 
> > though that this kernel shouldn't work indefinately...
>
>
> AFAIK, this is not required by 2.4.18, but only by 2.4.19.  As you can
> see by my uname output above, I am running 2.4.18.  Also note that I can
> boot fine if the drive is in another machine, just not if it is in the
> IOpener.

Based on the theory that a kernel image would only depend on 
initrd-tools if it used an initrd.img, I checked the reverse depends 
section for initrd-tools and since at least 2.4.12[the first 2.4 kernel 
I've used, and still shows up cause it was on the CDs I used to install 
Debian] it was required[and this jives with my memory].  But your logic 
that the hard drive boots in another machine is unimpeachable so I can 
only assume that the boot floppies are different than the regular 
kernels, and I have never used the boot floppy kernel image so I will be 
quiet now. :)