On Sun, 07 May 2000, Ken Archer wrote:
| I don't have the "initrd=/boot/initrd.img" line in lilo.conf that was written
| on the original install. I also can't find a initrd.img file with locate.
|
Not everyone has/needs an initrd. Generally, it is used to load modules that
the kernel needs to have available to it at boot time (example: SCSI disk
drivers on systems that boot from SCSI).
| On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote:
|
| > Also there are a series of lines indicating where files
| > necessary to the boot process may be founnd in the mounted
| > filesystem.
| >
| > map=/boot/map
| > install=/boot/boot.b
| > keytable=/boot/us.klt
| > image=/boot/vmlinuz
| > initrd=/boot/initrd.img
| >
| > So on your system, lilo must already be installed on the mbr
| > or you wouldn't be getting the LI. But the LI indicates that
| > it can't find a file necessary to the booting process, so the
| > root= line needs to be correct as do the map=, install=,
| > keytable=, image=, and initrd= lines.
| >
| > As root you need to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file and when
| > you've got all these lines corrected then issue this command
| > at a command line as root:
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~A
