Anne Wilson wrote:
John is telling me that I need to specifically tell the bootup which img and initrd versions I'm using. I understand his point, but before I do that I would like to understand a little better just what is happening here.I always use the actual kernel and intrd.img files not any links.
In the directory that has the 8.2 boot, subdirectory /boot, I have initrd-2.4.18-6mdk.img (size 218,650) and one that has an icon looking like a link, called initrd.img which is also 218,650 long. In the directory with the 9.0 boot there is a similar pair of files, relating to 2.4.19-16mdk. If I open them in an editor and scan the first few lines (I haven't done more than that) the pairs look identical. Are they? Are they interchangeable - they would have to be, I guess, to do as John suggests. Are they there for just this situation?
There are similar pairs for vmlinuz - so I expect the answer will be the same for these. But why is one of each pair looking like a link? How are these files actually used at bootup?
Anne
On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 10:40 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 1:41 am, Terry Smith wrote:should be image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=Mandrake_8.2should be initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-6mdk.img
root=/dev/hde6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="nobiospmp devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"
vga=normal
read-only
You are not telling the system which kernel and initrd file to use, and
it's best to
define both kernels and initrd files for both Mandrake OS , even though
it has booted
one OS on the one ill defined version.
When you get used to this you can download other peoples amended
kernel versions and install them in /boot partition, and write a new stanza
to boot on it, without removing anything of the old setup, that way you
can test
things out easily.
John
John
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