initrd and lilo.conf

[Brian W. Carver]

I just compiled a custom 2.4.18 kernel for my woody-running laptop. 

I'm new at this and am pretty sure I am about to shutdown and be unable to 
boot back up, because this initrd/lilo stuff has me baffled. Please help! 

I followed the instructions about building a kernel using make-kpkg 
carefully (the README in /usr/doc/kernel-package) and while in menuconfig 
chose the initrd option because it suggested I needed to do so. 

my /etc/lilo.conf says: 

image=/vmlinuz
     label=Linux
     read-only
     initrd=/initrd.img 

I added that last line since the first prompt of dpkg -i 
kernel-image-2.4.18-custom.1.0_i386.deb said to do that. I get the feeling 
though that they don't literally mean "initrd.img" should go in lilo.conf 
but that rather I need to know the actual name and location of this 
initrd.img. I don't know it and don't know where to look for it. 

Looking around on the web I see people talking about /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 or 
whatnot, but I have no such file. I only see vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci from my 
previous kernel in /boot. I get the feeling I have to copy the image to 
/boot but I don't know where to copy it from, or if it's even been created. 

Thanks for any help! 

Brian

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