initrd and lilo.conf
I just compiled a custom 2.4.18 kernel for my woody-running laptop.
I'm new at this and am pretty sure I am about to shutdown and be unable to
boot back up, because this initrd/lilo stuff has me baffled. Please help!
I followed the instructions about building a kernel using make-kpkg
carefully (the README in /usr/doc/kernel-package) and while in menuconfig
chose the initrd option because it suggested I needed to do so.
my /etc/lilo.conf says:
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
initrd=/initrd.img
I added that last line since the first prompt of dpkg -i
kernel-image-2.4.18-custom.1.0_i386.deb said to do that. I get the feeling
though that they don't literally mean "initrd.img" should go in lilo.conf
but that rather I need to know the actual name and location of this
initrd.img. I don't know it and don't know where to look for it.
Looking around on the web I see people talking about /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 or
whatnot, but I have no such file. I only see vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci from my
previous kernel in /boot. I get the feeling I have to copy the image to
/boot but I don't know where to copy it from, or if it's even been created.
Thanks for any help!
Brian
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