Interesting. My lilo.conf has no line about initrd and dmesg reports nothing on ramdisks for my 2.4.7 system. What type of systems need a ramdisk to boot initially?
--mike On 06 Aug 2001 11:51:33 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:47:59AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:18:49AM -0400, Stephen Nosal wrote: > > > Folks - > > > > > > I've been having a terrible time attempting to upgrade my perfectly good > > > potato installation to the new woody > > > distribution including the 2.4 kernel. Each time I attempt to install the > > > kernel, I get a statement regarding initrd, and the upgrade fails. > > Add this to your lilo.conf under the new kernel. > > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.4-686 > > Change the initrd to point to the appropriate file on your system. Rerun > lilo, and reboot. > > 2.4 uses a ramdisk to boot. This hit me too. > > Mike > > -- > Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily > a > good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be > dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925
