> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:48:22AM -0700, np rpr wrote: > Hi All, > I am a new debian user. and am trying to upgrade my > machine to 2.4.19, I downloaded the image and tried > deb -i kernel-image.. it told me to add initrd=/initrd > under vmlinuz, I did that but when I tried lilo.. I > got the error that initrd doesn't exist. According to > the message I am supposed to edit > /etc/kernel-img.conf. > But I couldn't find this file?
Same thing happened to me (Debian Newbie as well) yesterday. I even removed the initrd=... entry, issued lilo command and rebooted (although I was sort of warned by the conf-script) finding that kernel 2.4 actually can't boot without this entry. Starting with a boot-floppy (glad to have it) I set the entry in lilo.config to initrd=/boot/initrd-img-2.4.16-k6 (or whatever -look in /boot/ ) did lilo, and could boot the new kernel from hd. I think the installation(configure)-script could have been a bit more helpful, it mentions the important things, but is misleading when it says 'put initrd=/initrd in your lilo.config'. As to the file /etc/kernel-img.conf: it turned up after some fiddling around (with entries I didn't put in there), so the installing script seems to use it. But I couldn' find any documentation about it. Bob Nielsen said: >If you install kernel-package, the man page and a sample file for >/etc/kernel-img.conf will be installed. Ah, OK, thats where you can get it ;-). I wanted to have the new kernel, because the es1370 module was apparently not in the standard woody kernel (idepci2.2...). With the new kernel I can make insmod es1370 and voila: sound works! (Never got that with older SuSeDistros I worked with since 1998.) Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
