dist-upgrade installed vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64, ran mkinitrd and lilo which
reported two warnings (mbr on different harddrive, assuming LBA32 addressing)
but no fatal problems. When the upgrade was complete I rebooted and the new
kernel was loaded immediately. The boot up subsequently failed with a message
that no ram disk was found at 0.
I confess the same was true of vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-amd64 so I had saved
vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-amd64 which boots up with no problems. I had hoped the
problem would go away with the next kernel image upgrade but it hasn't.
The problem appears to be with kernels and the initrd.img's as kernel panic
occurs after a message that no ramdisk is found at 0. During the dist-upgrade
mkinitrd is automatically run for each of the three kernel images mentioned
above. When the system is booted with any of the three kernel images the
initial installation of the kernel completes with no difficulty. It is after
this that the newer kernels cannot find the ram disk. The
vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-amd64 kernel does not have this problem and completes the boot
up successfully.
Perhaps switching to grub would resolve this problem? If need be I will try to
switch but as I have been happy with lilo until now it would be nice to be
sure this will resolve the problem.
Note: I originally posted this as a lilo problem but now realize this is not
the case. Lilo loads any of the kernel images with no difficulty. The problem
is between the newer kernels and their initrd.imges.
Tom
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