On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 03:42:56PM +0200, steef wrote: > Ionut Georgescu wrote: > > >We should wake up people, both of them ar wrong!!! :-) > > > >First, we are loading the kernel itself as an initrd image :-)) > >Second, it cannot be append, because initrd is the boot loader's task. > > > >So: > > > >image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686 > > label=Linux-2.4.27 > > initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-686 > > read-only > > > >lilo > > > >On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:59:39AM +0200, steef wrote: > > > > > no! if you do a kernel-upgrade under woody p.e. from 2.2 to 2.4, and > you start with the kernel-headers you must after that of course install > the corresponding kernel-image. in my experience the chap who put this > 2.4 or other image in kpackage put a thread in it. this thread asks you > if: 'you have installed from scrap, uh?? and then 'debian/kpackage' asks > you if you will be so kind to add a line in lilo: something like > initrd=/initrd.img and asks again if it must make a symlinc from lilo to > the kernelimage in /boot. at that point. if i remember well, > initrd-tools-package is already installed. > > kpackage proceeds asking if it will change lilo-make-up. i said allways > 'no' at that point. > further try out the procedure for yourself to fresh up your memory > completely. last time i did this was i guess two months ago. > > kind regards, > > steef > >
You may have answered another message, but not mine :-)
Most probably you are right. Last time a made an upgrade from 2.2 to 2.4
was 3 years ago and I still don't like /vmlinuz and /initrd.img as symlinks to
/boot anyway.
But that was not my point. My point was that our proposal for the
contents of lilo.conf was wrong for pure technical reasons:
1. you don't load a kernel, but an initrd.img as initrd image.
This was on the line:
initrd=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686
instead of
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-686
2. initrd is loaded by the boot loader into memory, so it
cannot by passed as an argument to the kernel by append=""
Both of them were my mistake, but one has survived the list :-)
Cheers,
Ionut
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