On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:27:47AM -0500, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > Greetings. Yet another not-newbie, not-guru end-user-type > question here. > > I'm still having trouble compiling the kernel. I scrapped > the previous attempt using a kernel from kernel.org and got > the source directly from debian. > > The kernel compiled OK, but when I updated LILO and ran it, > I got the following error message: > > Fatal: open /initrd.img: No such file or directory > > I looked, and /initrd.img is a symlink pointing to > /boot/initrd.img . Unfortunately, there is no > /boot/initrd.img. > > It's possible that I accidentally deleted this file. How > should I replace it? Where can I find it? Isn't it > generated during the make-kpkg kernel_image?
If you are not using Debian kenrel or the debian kernel make utility, you are not using initrd.img. So your can delete it from lilo...