Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:32:39PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
>
>>I installed testing yesterday.
>>
>>tasksel was a problem, but thats been discussed i think.
>>
>>The *major* problem i had was upgrading to pre-built 2.4.5 kernel post
>>install, when i first installed 2.4.5 i was told to edit
>>/etc/kernel-img.conf (that didnt exist yet) and add a line "Do_initrd =
>>Yes" (is it case sensitive?), after the kernel package finished
>>installing i found the file and edited it. When i rebooted the kernel
>>couldnt find the root device.... i dunno what i wants as the root
>>device, the real root device, or the initrd.
>>
>
>That's not exactly what you were told to do. The message said to fix your
>bootloader so that it would boot the initrd kernel, THEN change
>/etc/kernel-img.conf to get rid of the warning message. In the case of LILO,
>this means adding an initrd= line to the proper stanza in /etc/lilo.conf.
>
>This happened because the packaged 2.2 kernels don't use an initrd, while the
>packaged 2.4 kernels do. If you follow the instructions, everything works OK.
>
Fair enough, i just added the initrd= line and its fine, but still, im
sure lots of people will make the mistake i did.
Maybe it should be in the documentation that comes with prebuilt
kernels, i was looking through the package scripts for hints, but got
sick of that pretty quick.
Glenn
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