On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:55:54PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > I've been having trouble booting from kernels I've built with make-kpkg > with the --initrd option. My /etc/lilo.conf does has initrd=... lines. > > When I try to boot a new kernel, it says: > > Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0 > > and says something about device 1601 / 16:01 (which disk and partition > is that?). > > I built a kernel before with make-kpkg and --initrd and got it working > just fine, but can't figure out what I'm doing differently (and wrong) > this time. Hmmm...have you rerun lilo? > By the way, Lilo's lba32 option implies that keeping things below the > 1024th cylinder of a disk is no longer relevant. Is that actually > correct? Is it also correct for initrd images (/boot/initrd.img-...)? As far as I know, yes, the 1024-cylinder limitation is completely gone. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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