On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 06:42:47PM -0700, J F wrote:
> Based on the output from aptitude and my current
> lilo.conf, do you think I need to do anything to lilo.conf?
aptitude is just a frontend. dpkg is doing the actual work of unpacking
and installing the package.
> Is aptitude going to put the new kernel
> in /boot?
dpkg will, yes.
> Will aptitude fix the link /vmlinuz ?
dpkg will. yes.
> I ran aptitude and it did a lot of things and then said:
>
> aptitude wrote:
> >Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.20-3-386 (from
> >.../kernel-image-2.4.20-3-386_2.4.20-9_i386.deb) ...
> >
> >You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version 2.4.20-3-386)
> >This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to use
> >initrd. (An initrd image is a kernel image that expects to use an INITial
> >Ram Disk to mount a minimal root file system into RAM and use that for
> >booting).
> >As a reminder, in order to configure lilo, you need to
> >add an 'initrd=/initrd.img' to the image=/vmlinuz
> >stanza of your /etc/lilo.conf
> >I repeat, You need to configure your boot loader. If you have already done
> >so, and you wish to get rid of this message, please put
> > `do_initrd = Yes'
> >in /etc/kernel-img.conf. Note that this is optional, but if you do not,
> >you'll continue to see this message whenever you install a kernel
> >image using initrd.
> >Do you want to stop now? [Y/n]
> >
> default=Linux
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-xfs
> label=Linux
> initrd=/boot/initrd.gz
> read-only
> # restricted
> # alias=1
The kernel image will be unpacked into /boot as
vmlinuz-<kernel-version>, and a symlink called /vmlinuz will be created
pointing to it. This was in the default lilo.conf, but you deleted it.
You'll need to recreate a stanza along the lines of:
image=/vmlinuz
label=debian-kernel
initrd=/initrd.img
read-only
For kernels from kernel-image packages to work. You won't need to
modify it again, though. You might want to make it the default.
> # ls -ld /v*
> drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jan 18 2003 /var
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 May 21 12:23 /vmlinuz ->
> boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-xfs
Oh, you have that link? Why did you modify your lilo.conf, then?
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