If you have installed the latest (1:22.5.8-8) LILO package, you can run /usr/sbin/liloconfig and it will automatically add the images needed including the initrd= tags for each kernel with its initrd.img file. Sam Rosenfeld <sam@wdn.com> writes: > I am having trouble installing a kernel image which seems to depend on > initrd. The error message below is a verbatim message which follows the > halting of the installation. For some reason after I add > 'initrd=/initrd' I cannot run lilo. Do I need initrd? If so, how can > I satisfy the request from the kernel image installation request? If I > don't need initrd, how do I identify a kernel image that doesn't require > initrd? > > sam > > > Error message: > > You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version 2.4.16-k6) > This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to use > initrd. > As a reminder, in order to configure lilo, you need to > add an 'initrd=/initrd' in 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. > Do you want to stop now? [Y/n] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Andrés Roldán <aroldan@debian.org> GPG Key-ID: 0xB29396EB http://people.fluidsignal.com/~aroldan
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