Re: LiloCan't Boot vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64

["Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info>]

Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri,29.Aug.08, 21:24:21, Thomas H. George wrote:
>
>   
> > Indeed the problem appears to be with kernels as kernel panic occurs
> > after a message that no ramdisk is found at 0.  During the dist-upgrade
> > mkinitrd is automatically run for each of the three kernel images
> > mentioned above.  When the system is booted with any of the three kernel
> > images the initial installation of the kernel completes with no
> > difficulty.  It is after this that the newer kernels cannot find the ram
> > disk.  The vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-amd64 kernel does not have this problem and
> > completes the boot up successfully.
> >     
>  
> There is a bug in lilo that prevents it to load too big initrds. Please 
> show the output of 'ls -la /boot' to check for this. If this is the case 
> you can only try to make a smaller initrd. Setting "MODULES=dep" in 
> /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf might help.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
>   
The attached listing of initrd.img file sizes shows only a slight 
increase from kernel to kernel.

Tom

Script started on Sun 31 Aug 2008 11:20:06 AM EDT
Phoenix:/var/state# ls -l /boot/initrd.*
-rw------- 1 root root 7657200 2008-08-29 09:36 [00m/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-amd64
-rw------- 1 root root 7804926 2008-08-29 09:36 [00m/boot/initrd.img-2.6.25-2-amd64
-rw------- 1 root root 7872304 2008-08-29 09:37 [00m/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-amd64

Script done on Sun 31 Aug 2008 11:20:47 AM EDT