Bret Busby wrote at 2010-01-23 00:03 -0600: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > 1: http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/releasenotes > > In trying to follow the [...] instructions for > the [...] upgrade, [...] > I am [...] prevented from performing > the required upgrade from Debian 4 to Debian 5.
Ah, that's better. All that complaining is rather annoying. > In following the instructions, and, tring to install the 486 version > of the kernel, I get a screen that states: > > "Configuring linux-image-2.6.18-6-486 [...] > As a reminder, in order to configure LILO, you need to add an > 'initrd=/initrd.img' to the image=/vmlinuz stanza of > your /etc/lilo.conf > > I repeat, You need to configure your boot loader -- please read > your bootloader documentation for details on how to > add initrd images. > > If you have already done so, and you wish to get rid of this > message, please put > "do_initrd = Yes" > > in /etc/kernel-img.conf. Note that this is optional, but if you do > not, you will continue to see this message whenever > you install a kernel image using initrd. > > Do you want to abort now?" Did you abort? Do you use LILO? If so, have you tried editing the lilo.conf file as suggested? > As a reminder, in order to configure LILO, you need to add an > 'initrd=/initrd.img' to the image=/vmlinuz stanza of > your /etc/lilo.conf And then you could edit the kernel-img.conf file as suggested. > If you have already done so, and you wish to get rid of this > message, please put > "do_initrd = Yes" > > in /etc/kernel-img.conf.
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