Re: The Lilo/initrd.img Problem Has Recurred

2008-09-23 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:10:54AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:34:21 -0400 Thomas H. George wrote: > > > With BUSYBOX=n the initrd.img file size is reduced to 6683876 but > > bootup still fails. > > Maybe yaird can help. Install the yaird package and then add > >

Re: The Lilo/initrd.img Problem Has Recurred

2008-09-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:34:21 -0400 Thomas H. George wrote: > With BUSYBOX=n the initrd.img file size is reduced to 6683876 but > bootup still fails. Maybe yaird can help. Install the yaird package and then add ramdisk=mkinitrd.yaird mkinitramfs to /etc/kernel-img.conf (try to use yaird,

Re: The Lilo/initrd.img Problem Has Recurred

2008-09-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/22/08 15:34, Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:57:49PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:08:24 -0400 Thomas H. George wrote: Last month when lilo could not boot a stock 2.6.26-1-amd64 debian system it was pointed out to me that the initrd.img was too bi

Re: The Lilo/initrd.img Problem Has Recurred

2008-09-22 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:57:49PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:08:24 -0400 Thomas H. George wrote: > > > Last month when lilo could not boot a stock 2.6.26-1-amd64 debian > > system it was pointed out to me that the initrd.img was too big and > > that the solution was to

Re: The Lilo/initrd.img Problem Has Recurred

2008-09-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:08:24 -0400 Thomas H. George wrote: > Last month when lilo could not boot a stock 2.6.26-1-amd64 debian > system it was pointed out to me that the initrd.img was too big and > that the solution was to edit /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf and > change MODULES=most to MODU

The Lilo/initrd.img Problem Has Recurred

2008-09-22 Thread Thomas H. George
Last month when lilo could not boot a stock 2.6.26-1-amd64 debian system it was pointed out to me that the initrd.img was too big and that the solution was to edit /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf and change MODULES=most to MODULES=dep. This indeed reduced the size of the initrd.img from about