When you upgraded the kernel did you get "all" the packages associated
with the kernel such as the kernel header files and such things?
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On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Phil Risby wrote:
> Hi
>
> My problem came about when trying to UPGRADE my kernel to 2.2.16
> It would not re-boot and failed with a kernel panick
> I tracked this down to the Ramdisk boot option VFS failed , kernel panick
> which appears to be related to the initrd=initrd.img line in /etc/lilo.conf
> refering to initrd.img soft link in /boot
> How does this come about
> No I installed the exact same Mandrake 7.1 CD on three diofferent machines, on
> two it comes up with this initrd stuff, on the thrid it just did a plain
> install and the eleant files in /boot were the kernel and System.map, no initrd
> stuff
> I see no install time selection to choose this type of boot process, either in
> expert or custom or automated install
>
> I did find some docs on it , but I cannot find it again
>
> You see when you come to do an rpm upgrade of the kernel no new initrd is
> generated. If this line is left out of lilo.conf it will not bot that kernel
>
> Please someone explain this , or point me to the docs for it
> Thanks
>
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> phil
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