Re: Alpha setup

[Ernst-Magne Vindal <ernst@vindal.com>]

Vittorio wrote:
> I installed a perfectly working debian 3.0 on a EV5 Compaq Alpha WS,
> running the 2.2.20 boxed kernel image.
>
> Now I've been trying to install the 2.4.18 (or better the new 2.4.20)
> kernel image but I've been invariably ending up in a kernel panic. I think that
> the problem is that I was unable to say my Alpha WS that it should
> have used initrd at booting time as only hinted by the installation
> documentation (very poor indeed!). 
>
> Could someone out there explain (step by step) how I can tell such a
> WS that I want to use initrd?
>
> Ciao
> Vittorio

You probably want something like "initrd=/initrd.img" in your 
/etc/lilo.conf
Look for a section like this:

image=/vmlinuz
        initrd=/initrd.img
        label="Debian2.4img"
        read-only

In your / folder you will probably see the initrd.img or a link to it.

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/ernst