On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:22:42PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: | Hi, | | I'm running Sid and am trying to upgrade to kernel 2.4.x from 2.2.x. | However, I am also running Mandrake Cooker, from which I configure and | install lilo. Are there any documents on installing a debian
Installing a kernel-image and installing a bootloader are separate things, and the Debian packages thankfully keep it that way. What I mean is, when you install a kernel-image package, it will put the kernel image and supporting files in /boot, but won't do anything else to you. (Well, it will make you update modutils if needed and make you get initrd-tools). | kernel-image but not installing the bootloader with debian? I tried | copying the kernel image to my mandrake /boot file and re-running lilo, | but the kernel will not boot. This means that lilo isn't properly configured to boot the kernel. I believe that the stock 2.4 kernels require an initrd. Copy the initrd (/boot/initrd-2.4.8_386 for me) that the kernel-image package installed to your /boot directory, add an "initrd=<path>" argument to the kernel and boot with the initrd. For me, (I use grub), that means my last command is "initrd <path>" instead of "boot". I don't know what needs to be done for lilo. HTH, -D
