I'm forward this question on Bill's behalf since he's having trouble with the listserver. Seve > Hi > My pronblem came about when trying to UPGRADE my kernel to 2.2.16 > It would not re-boot and failed with a kernel panick > I tracked this down to the Ramdisk boot option VFS failed , kernel panick > which appears to be related to the initrd=initrd.img line in /etc/lilo.conf > refering to initrd.img soft link in /boot > How does this come about > No I installed the exact same Mandrake 7.1 CD on three diofferent machines, on > two it comes up with this initrd stuff, on the thrid it just did a plain > install and the eleant files in /boot were the kernel and System.map, no initrd > stuff > I see no install time selection to choose this type of boot process, either in > expert or custom or automated install > I did find some docs on it , but I cannot find it again > You see when you come to do an rpm upgrade of the kernel no new initrd is > generated. If this line is left out of lilo.conf it will not bot that kernel > Please someone explain this , or point me to the docs for it > Thanks > phil > ----------------- > Many thanks > Phil > -- > Phil Risby > C-TEK > San Juan > Puerto Rico
