Re: initrd and lilo.conf

[Brian Carver <debian@rurnt.com>]

New problem:

When I proceeded with the

dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.18-custom.1.0_i386.deb 

after deciding that initrd.img was ok to put in lilo.conf I get an error:
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Setting up kernel-image-2.4.18 (custom.1.0) ...
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.18 (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
kernel-image-2.4.18
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Any ideas why this is happening?

Brian

Clive Menzies wrote:

> Hi Brian
> On (27/05/03 12:22), Brian W. Carver wrote:
>
> > 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 
>
> This is exactly what I put in and it worked. However, did you
>
> make a boot floppy when you installed originally? Because you can
>
> always boot off that to recover, should there be a problem.
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Clive