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Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?



On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 01:39:16 -0500, Kent West wrote:

> Jules Dubois wrote:
>>
>>Thanks for the advice, Kent.  A foolish question: There's really nothing
>>more to it than installing a kernel-image package (and, in my case,
>>updating initrd-tools)?  
>>
> If you're not already running an initrd kernel, you may have to add one 
> line to /etc/lilo.conf, but you're warned about it during the install.

I'll have a look at the GRUB documentation.

I remember now that I stopped using LibraNet's pre-packaged kernels because 
of a problem I caused with its initrd.  I created an unbootable system.

I understand now the purpose of initrd; I've just never used it myself. 
The kernels I've been building with make-kpkg have never required an
initrd, so is there much benefit to studying how to do it?



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