Thanks also to Gilboa Davara, Gilad Ben-Yossef and Muli Ben-Yehuda for responding to this.
Now, I need the techl's: 1. What (if any) should I write in the grub.conf file in my laptop to properly boot from /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-686? 2. Is there any other configuration, which I need to carry out? Notes: 1. I still have /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-686 2. I do not have any /boot/initramfs* files 3. The package initramfs-tools is installed (version 0.53). 4. My laptop's installation is vanilla Debian Etch (Testing). When googling for 'initramfs grub', I saw a Wiki page which mentioned mkinitramfs, and I saw also that there is update-initramfs, but I do not understand why the Debian package installation scripts of the kernel packages did not take care of this in my behalf. Thanks, --- Omer On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 15:42 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Omer Zak wrote: > > >Does anyone know what happened and how to repair the initrd.img? > >The current version of initrd-tools is 0.1.84. Should I try to > >downgrade it to a previous version? > > > > > Quite frankly, I'm no longer using Sid/Testing as a primary platform, so > I'm not entirely up to speed on the precise details. Generally, however, > the kernel packge switched to a new initrd method. You will also notice > that the package name changed from "kernel-image-2.6...." to > "linux-image-2.6...". This is part of the same change. > > IIRC, they are using a new mechanism to generate an initrd replacement > (this is NOT an initrd in the usual sense of the word, but something > understood by the kernel directly). Sadly, I don't know the precise > details of the change. Perchance one of the kernel devs on this list can > elaborate further? > > Shachar -- MS-Windows is the Pal-Kal of the PC world. My own blog is at http://tddpirate.livejournal.com/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]