Hi,
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Peter Ross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently running Debian testing distribution and I am attempting
> to get kernel 2.4.7 to boot.
>
> It boots to a shell prompt and then nothing happens.
> I cannot even run ls.
>
> Here is the relevant section from my lilo.conf.
>
> image=/vmlinuz.new
> label=new
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-686
> root=/dev/ram0
> init=/linuxrc
> read-only
> optional
>
What you are trying to do here is to boot from an initial ramdisk. You
probably want to boot from your harddisk. Try this as lilo.conf:
lba32
boot=/dev/sda
root=/dev/sda1
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
prompt
timeout=100
image=/vmlinuz.new
label=Linux
read-only
and run 'lilo' to activate the changes. This will boot the new kernel and
mount /dev/sda1 as the root.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
