Hi to Everyone, With my old SARGE system, as stated here last week, I was unable to boot newly compiled kernels, most likely because of the faulty initrd.img that I got using 'mkinitrd'. For this reason, I decided to install Lenny.
Now, with Lenny, I haven't so far been able to go any further in recompiling usable kernels. 2.6.30.4 did compile without errors, but then I found that I had no 'mkinitrd' on my new system. How am I to generate an initrd.img ? I was unable to find any package that I could install using apt-get with the name 'mkinitrd', there is no such thing either in the cache base. However, when I installed Lenny (72 hours ago), the install program did generate an initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 that is now installed in my /boot directory, and my /boot/grub/menu.lst file does specify this file in the boot menu. Thanks in advance for your help P.S. I did find a doc about some related subjects in the /Documentation directory of the downloaded kernel... but it was so old and obsolete that it was useless, dated 1998 and mentioning only lilo, not grub... this in a recent kernel doc (2008-2009) ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
