I attempted to upgrade my live system (persistent), including a kernel upgrade. I got basically the same message as what's shown below. Note that I'm not attempting to use a kernel from backports.org this time, but a standard Debian kernel.
What's the proper way to handle this? -Rob On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 08:56:35PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > In order to get a wireless card working, I need to install a kernel from > lenny backports. I get this message: > > You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version ↑ > 2.6.30-bpo.2-486). This will not work unless the boot loader is > configured to use an initrd. > An initrd image is a kernel image that expects to use an INITial > Ram Disk to mount a minimal root file system into RAM and use that for > booting. > The boot loader must be configured to use such images and the > system ▒ > will not boot until this is done. > ▒ > This message will appear for any new kernel installation unless the > following is added to /etc/kernel-img.conf: > > "do_initrd = Yes" > > > Is there any reason not to do this on a live system? I ask because my > /etc/kernel-img.conf file is empty on my live system, while my Lenny > system installed on a hard disk has this in /etc/kernel-img.conf: > > do_symlinks = yes > relative_links = yes > do_bootloader = no > do_bootfloppy = no > do_initrd = yes > link_in_boot = no > postinst_hook = update-grub > postrm_hook = update-grub > > By the way, I'm using syslinux as my bootloader. > > -Rob > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
