Re: Newbie: Kernel Panic
On Monday 19 May 2003 07:45, Chris Everts wrote:
> The thing this reminds me of is having forgotten to add the
> "initrd=/initrd.img" line to the stanza in your new kernel in lilo.conf.
> Add it, if indeed you forgot, and run lilo afterwards.
Caution: /initrd.img can be (probably often is on Debian) a symbolic link.
If it is pointing to the initrd image from an older kernel image when a newer
kernel image is being loaded then problems similar to this might arise.
Generating a new initrd image is voodoo I'm still working on (make-kpkg
--initrd is one option, the other is to use mkinitrd, and yet another is to
build the file by hand??? - refer to kernel HOWTO for more info).
Messing about with initrd is best left to package maintainers. First spend
your time getting your IDE and NIC driver compiled into your kernel so you
don't have to use initrd.
For your reference, here is another initrd related problem I saw when I used
the wrong initrd image:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200305/msg02222.html
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Mike M.
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