RE: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

2001-08-03 Thread Craig Coles
w how to make it all happen? -Craig -Original Message- From: John Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 11:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work have you got the line initrd=/boot/in

Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

2001-07-31 Thread Liu Tao
Thank you (-: I think I can upgrade the kernel without initrd trouble in the futer. And I am trying to compile a kernel without initrd. On Wednesday 01 August 2001 03:33, der.hans wrote: > Am 29. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Tao Liu so: > > Yes! The problem is resolved! > > I am using 2.4.7 now. > > Thank y

Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

2001-07-31 Thread der.hans
Am 29. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Tao Liu so: > Yes! The problem is resolved! > I am using 2.4.7 now. > Thank you! > > But what does initrd mean? > Is it new for 2.4? The initial-ramdisk ( initrd ) is a way for Linux to cheat. It needs to because x86 architecture sucks :). There's a very small amount o

Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

2001-07-29 Thread Martin Rowe
On Sunday 29 July 2001 06:13, Tao Liu wrote: > Yes! The problem is resolved! > I am using 2.4.7 now. > Thank you! > > But what does initrd mean? > Is it new for 2.4? Initial Ram Disk. It's been there for sometime as I needed it to get ide-scsi emulation going for my cdburner back on Mandrake 6.0

Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

2001-07-29 Thread John Griffiths
Bigger brains than mine will have to answer that I experienced this trauma myself ast week and someone suggested it and it works. shame the kernel packagers haven't automated that one. At 01:13 PM 7/29/01 +0800, Tao Liu wrote: >Yes! The problem is resolved! >I am using 2.4.7 now. >Thank you! > >

Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

2001-07-29 Thread Tao Liu
Yes! The problem is resolved! I am using 2.4.7 now. Thank you! But what does initrd mean? Is it new for 2.4? On Sunday 29 July 2001 22:50, you wrote: > have you got the line > > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-686 > > after the vmlinuz stanza in lilo.conf? > > that fixed my trouble with that one > add

Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

2001-07-28 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, Do you use lilo? If so could you please post that file? And also the output of ls -l /boot/vm* Thanks, Jimmy Richards On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:36:03PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote: > I upgraded my potato to sid today, > and I installed the package"Kernel-image

Re: kernel 2.4.7 doesn't work

2001-07-28 Thread John Griffiths
have you got the line initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-686 after the vmlinuz stanza in lilo.conf? that fixed my trouble with that one add the run lilo and boot At 12:36 PM 7/29/01 +0800, Tao Liu wrote: >I upgraded my potato to sid today, >and I installed the package"Kernel-image-2.4.7-686" > >When I