On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:42:01AM -0500 or thereabouts, Kent West wrote: > S.D.A. wrote: > > >On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 07:21:11PM -0500 or thereabouts, Kent West wrote: > >Apologies if this has been done before, but if it has, I surely can't > > > I've never had to do anything extra _except_ add the initrd line to > lilo.conf. > > When you "apt-get install kernel-image-2.4-blahblah", it should warn you about > this; at this point, if I haven't already done so on a previous kernel > upgrade, I let that sit and hope over to a different VT or terminal window, > and edit /etc/lilo.conf, like so: It tells one to add that line, but it could be clearer as to exactly where. Something you've done. Thanks. > >image=/vmlinuz > > label=Linux > > read-only > > initrd=/initrd.img > > append="hdc=ide-scsi" > ># restricted > ># alias=1 > > Notice the single line that says "initrd=/initrd.img"; this is the only > line I have to add, and I don't believe it matters where in the "stanza" > it goes. Then I save the file and hop back to my kernel installation and > tell it to continue. As part of the installation, it runs lilo so I > don't have to. Note also that this line is only needed with kernels that > were built to use an _init_ial _r_am _d_isk, which most official Debian > kernels are, I believe. > Kent So that's it, besides running Lilo? I wonder why, those two steps, don't tend to work for me, when upgrading from the 2.2.* image from stable. :\ -- Steve +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Saturday Apr 17 2004 10:26:02 AM EDT +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *** ******* ********* ****** Confucious say: "Is stuffy inside fortune cookie." ******* ***
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