On Thu Sep 06, 2001 at 02:06:01PM -0600, Dan Hensley wrote:
> Thanks a bunch for this tip. That indeed was the problem. I did have a ram
> disk in /boot that was symlinked properly, but it was for the 2.4.2 kernel, so
> that caused problems. When I created one specifically for the 2.4.3-20mdk
> kernel, that one was able to boot up fine. For some reason though, both the
> 2.4.3 and 2.4.7 kernel RPMs didn't provide a ramdisk? Why is that?
It should work... it worked flawlessly here. Without a closer look at
your system, I couldn't say for certain what the problem is (in fact,
I'm quite stumped... Chmouel did some awesome work with the
installkernel script that should set all of this up automatically).
> I still don't know why the RPMs didn't finish their job with updating
> symlinks. Maybe my system has other problems. It's an 8.0beta system
> (probably the last beta) that I upgraded to 8.0 release. I wasn't able to use
> the 8.0 release for a fresh install since it had problems that the beta didn't
> (I have an nVidia video card). I don't recall all the problems I ran into,
> other than the video problem and the fact that the installer insisted on me
> using lilo even though I specifically requested grub, and actually was using
> grub during the beta process.
Hmmm... I don't know about upgrading from a beta to the release
version, but it sounds like your system has more issues than just a
kernel upgrade problem.
> On a related note, why does Mandrake use symlinks in /boot in the first
> place? It seems much more logical to point lilo (or grub) to the specific ram
> disk, vmlinuz, etc. Doing symlinks just seems like the perfect way to get
> yourself into lots of trouble with version mismatches, especially when you
> have multiple kernels installed.
I like the symlinks. I don't see any confusion or problems with it
(but then I always examine /boot after a kernel install and before a
reboot), but that could just be me. As to the why, I'm not sure but I
(personally) don't mind it at all.
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