On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:02:54PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > flexible == good. Unfortunately, there wasn't much warning about it, so I > > bet a lot of people (and their respective machines) are panicing. > > Hmm, I thought the message in the preinst was as prominent as it could be. > Any suggestions on how it can be improved?
What threw me was that it asked me if I wanted to stop, and I said yes. It
went ahead and installed the kernel and supporting packages anyway. It then
did a lot of automated work in setting up the initrd symlink, and prompting me
to rerun lilo. Honestly, I assumed that once it was prompting me to rerun
lilo, that lilo.conf was correct.
It was easy to fix with an email to this list, but the behaviour was a
little misleading.
---quote---
You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version $version)
This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to use
initrd.
To get rid of this message, put `do_initrd = Yes' in /etc/kernel-img.conf.
---end quote---
Note that it doesn't mention _how_ to modify your boot loader. I guess
there are a lot of them, but lilo is pretty common...
So, if I answered "yes", does that mean that something is not yet done in
the install of the kernel? Everything seems to be working...
Mike
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dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925
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