Re: kernel-package and moving the old vmlinuz

2002-01-20 Thread Paul Mackinney
Manoj Srivastava declaimed: > Hmm. I think I know what is going on here, but just to make > sure I am not totally off base here: You have instructed your boot > loader to expect an initrd kernel (and that is required to load the > newer official kernel images), and were trying to build an

Re: kernel-package and moving the old vmlinuz

2002-01-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Paul" == Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I've successfully installed several kernel's in the past using your Paul> (excellent) README file, but I've just spent 3 days unsuccessfully Paul> trying to boot from a newly compiled kernel package. Turns out that I Paul> had to ad

Re: kernel-package and moving the old vmlinuz

2002-01-16 Thread Paul Mackinney
Manoj Srivastava declaimed: > This was a bug. The check I had in the image postinst was > being too rigorous, and always failed. kernel-package from the last > day or so should have this fixed. > > manoj Manoj, I've successfully installed several kernel's in the past using your (ex

Re: kernel-package and moving the old vmlinuz

2002-01-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Shaul" == Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shaul> Next I installed kernel-image-2.2.20_custom.2.0_i386.deb and got both Shaul> vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old pointing to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20. Yet Shaul> /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz states that Shaul> Normally, that is only

Re: kernel-package and moving the old vmlinuz

2002-01-05 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 06:48:36PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: | kernel-package is not behaving the way I expected it with regard to | moving the old vmlinuz to vmlinuz.old. | Can you help identifying what am I doing wrong? | | The point is that I had | /vmlinuz -> /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20 and |

kernel-package and moving the old vmlinuz

2002-01-04 Thread Shaul Karl
kernel-package is not behaving the way I expected it with regard to moving the old vmlinuz to vmlinuz.old. Can you help identifying what am I doing wrong? The point is that I had /vmlinuz -> /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20 and /vmlinuz.old -> /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17, where the 2.2.20 was instal