Re: installing new kernel-image (the game)

2002-12-02 Thread Oki DZ
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:46:06PM -0500, David Ellis wrote: > I think you forgot to use the "lilo" command to update activate your > changes.. That's why it would be nicer to user grub (instead of lilo). You need to install it once. When you have a new kernel to boot to, you only need to defi

installing new kernel-image (solved)

2002-12-02 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
Hi again, at the end it was not the symlinks but something a bit (more) silly. The entry initrd=/initrd.img was there but..under the older kernel. So I just added the line to the new one. Anyway, thanks everybody for their answers. cheers rodrigo P.D. I do not know (yet) whether or not t

Re: installing new kernel-image (the game)

2002-12-02 Thread David Ellis
I think you forgot to use the "lilo" command to update activate your changes.. - David > you are right, my apologies > > the computer is a novatech laptop P4 processor, woody installed with > kernel 2.2.20 (trying to update to 2.4.18-686), > > I have a SiS7012 sound card, SiS900 ethernet card,

Re: installing new kernel-image (the game)

2002-12-02 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
you are right, my apologies the computer is a novatech laptop P4 processor, woody installed with kernel 2.2.20 (trying to update to 2.4.18-686), I have a SiS7012 sound card, SiS900 ethernet card, etc; the important thing (in my view) is that I've got a winmodem from (also) SiS. I downloaded the

Re: installing new kernel-image

2002-12-02 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Rodrigo Agerri (ylbaggar)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > in order to install a new kernel in stable, I did > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-686 > > I configured /etc/lilo.conf keeping the older kernel (2.2.20) such as: > > image=/vmlinuz > label=linux > read-only > > image=/vmlinuz

Re: installing new kernel-image

2002-12-02 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Rodrigo Agerri (ylbaggar) wrote: hi everybody in order to install a new kernel in stable, I did apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-686 I configured /etc/lilo.conf keeping the older kernel (2.2.20) such as: image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=kernel-2.2.20 r

Re: installing new kernel-image

2002-12-02 Thread ernst
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, nate wrote: > ylbaggar said: > > > what did i forget? > > > Is this a game? what can I win? I can't guess what you forgot because you > didn't include enough information about your hardware and software > configurations, and where the kernel paniced and what message it gave y

Re: installing new kernel-image

2002-12-02 Thread ernst
I'm not sure about the error, but you are also missing an entry in lilo under the kernel image, like: initrd=/initrd.img and probably a symlink in / like initrd.img -> /boot/initrd.your.image /ernst On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Rodrigo Agerri (ylbaggar) wrote: > > hi everybody > > in order to install a

Re: installing new kernel-image

2002-12-02 Thread nate
ylbaggar said: > what did i forget? Is this a game? what can I win? I can't guess what you forgot because you didn't include enough information about your hardware and software configurations, and where the kernel paniced and what message it gave you when it did panic. the list cannot read mind

installing new kernel-image

2002-12-02 Thread Rodrigo Agerri (ylbaggar)
hi everybody in order to install a new kernel in stable, I did apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-686 I configured /etc/lilo.conf keeping the older kernel (2.2.20) such as: image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=kernel-2.2.20 read-only I then executed lilo an