Re: initrd and lilo.conf

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 27 May 2003 12:22:54 -0400 "Brian W. Carver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. P

Re: initrd and lilo.conf

2003-05-27 Thread Mike M
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 14:08, Mark Roach wrote: > I imagine this is because you don't have initrd-tools installed. For > some reason the stock kernel images put this for depends: > Depends: initrd-tools (>= 0.1.40), coreutils | fileutils (>= 4.0), > modutils (>= 2.4.19) > > but when you use make-

Re: initrd and lilo.conf

2003-05-27 Thread Clive Menzies
On (27/05/03 10:32), Brian Carver wrote: > New problem: > > When I proceeded with the > > dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.18-custom.1.0_i386.deb > > after deciding that initrd.img was ok to put in lilo.conf I get an > error: > - > Setting up kernel-image-2.4.18 (custom.1.0) ... > Failed to create

Re: initrd and lilo.conf

2003-05-27 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 13:32, Brian Carver wrote: > New problem: > > When I proceeded with the > > dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.18-custom.1.0_i386.deb > > after deciding that initrd.img was ok to put in lilo.conf I get an error: > - > Setting up kernel-image-2.4.18 (custom.1.0) ... > Failed to c

Re: initrd and lilo.conf

2003-05-27 Thread Mike M
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 12:22, Brian W. Carver wrote: > 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 had the same quest

Re: initrd and lilo.conf

2003-05-27 Thread Brian Carver
New problem: When I proceeded with the dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.18-custom.1.0_i386.deb after deciding that initrd.img was ok to put in lilo.conf I get an error: - Setting up kernel-image-2.4.18 (custom.1.0) ... Failed to create initrd image. dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.18 (--ins

Re: initrd and lilo.conf

2003-05-27 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Brian On (27/05/03 12:22), Brian W. Carver wrote: > 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 t

initrd and lilo.conf

2003-05-27 Thread 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 carefull