You would be much better off just building a new kernel on your on.
G On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, rikiwarren wrote: >Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:11:57 +0900 >From: rikiwarren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "debian-kde@lists.debian.org" <debian-kde@lists.debian.org> >Subject: Upgrading the kernel on a woody box >Resent-From: debian-kde@lists.debian.org > >OK, I'm new to debian, so I probably screwed up something simple. This is >my second attempt to upgrade the kernel--it won't boot properly into the >new 2.4.12 kernel (I also tried 2.4.9 several weeks ago--same result). I >can still boot into my old kernel, however (2.2.19pre17) > >I've downloaded the kernel-image-2.4.12-686 (and the corresponding headers, >source, and doc file) >I double checked to make sure the initrd=/boot/initrd line was added to >lilo.conf (I believe it was added automatically when I tried this the first >time, but I could be wrong). It's like the third uncommented line in the >file. >I made sure the initrd link pointed to the correct (2.4.12) file. >I made sure that the following were installed: devfds, initrd-tools, >iptables, mkcramfs, libxml2, libxml2-dev and usbmgr. >I added the following to my source.list: >deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main >deb-src http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main > >And I ran apt-get update then apt-get dist-upgrade. > >When I reboot, I get a lot of errors. They flash by fast--but this is the >general gist. > >There was some error regarding partitions, cramfs and magic numbers. >Then there are a ton of missing module messages. >Then it tries to boot into X and fails--leaving me at a command line. > >I do have basic functionality from the command line. If I restart and boot >into my old kernel, everything works. > >Any ideas? > >-Rich- > >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > >
