Hello Shatam, This is not an error. It is a warning. And an advice. You have never used kernels with initrd images before, so your system has to be configured. Do what it says. Create /etc/kernel-img.conf and write the following line do_initrd = yes now run apt-get install kernel-image-... Good luck, Ionut > It still displays the same error messege. > ginie:# apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686 > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 349 not > upgraded. > Need to get 0B/12.3MB of archives. After unpacking 32.6MB will be > used. > (Reading database ... 42964 files and directories currently > installed.) > Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686 > (from .../kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686_2.4.27-8_i386.deb) ... > > You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version > 2.4.27-2-686) > 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 -- please read your > bootloader documentation for details on how to add initrd images. > > 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 will continue to see this message whenever you install a kernel > image using initrd. > Do you want to stop now? [Y/n]y > Ok, Aborting > dpkg: error > processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686_2.4.27-8_i386.deb (--unpack): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686_2.4.27-8_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > > > Currently my system is using OSS, I also tried to compile the alsa > system from source. Is there any way it can be done with out > installing the kernel source for my install? > Shatam > > > > -- *************** * Ionut Georgescu * Max-Plank-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme * Nöthnitzer Str. 38 * D-01187 Dresden * * Tel: +49 (351) 871-1109 * Fax: +49 (351) 871-1999
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