Prasad, Thanks for your reply, I don't seen any initrd file in /boot yeas vmlinuz-2.4.19-k6 is there which is obvious. Why initrd was not installed?
One more thing won't a message craete a new thread.. I am not sure please correct me. Thanks, Nitin --- Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Shyamal" == Shyamal Prasad > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "np" == np rpr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > np> Hi All, I am a new debian user. and am > trying to upgrade my > np> machine to 2.4.19, I downloaded the image > and tried deb -i > np> kernel-image.. it told me to add > initrd=/initrd under vmlinuz, > np> I did that but when I tried lilo.. I got the > error that initrd > np> doesn't exist. According to the message I am > supposed to edit > np> /etc/kernel-img.conf. But I couldn't find > this file? > > Shyamal> Some unasked for advice to a new user: > please start a new > Shyamal> thread when asking for help or changing > topics. Don't > Shyamal> just reply to an existing message. Some > of us actually do > Shyamal> use threaded mail/news readers ;-) > > Shyamal> When you installed your kernel, it was > probably called > Shyamal> something like kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 > (for example, this > Shyamal> specific name is the one I am using). > The architecture > Shyamal> specific extension -k7 may or may not > be there, but the > Shyamal> initrd image has the same naming > convention as the kernel > Shyamal> deb file name. The initrd file for the > image above is > Shyamal> /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-k7. > > Shyamal> Look in the /boot directory, and use > the correct name in > Shyamal> /etc/lilo.conf. > > Doh! I'm giving bad advice. *Slap*. These Debian > boxen are *so* stable > it's been months since I installed a kernel ;-) > > While what I said earlier is correct, the standard > Debian install will > link /initrd.img (not the .img at the end) to the > correct initrd image > in /boot. So you should check that /initrd.img is a > link to a file in > /boot/ that is probably named something like > /boot/initrd.img-2.4.19-586tsc or whatever. > > Unless you messed with lilo.conf or your > kernel-image .deb is broken, > this should have actually worked the first time. > Perhaps you just > missed the .img at the end? > > Cheers! > Shyamal > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
