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? 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. 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. Dan Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday 06 September 2001 09:51 am, Dan Hensley escribi�: > All I know is that when I updated with these RPMs, my > > system would not boot (see the archives with my posts in the last > > week or so). This is because I'm using Reiserfs, and the RPMs really > > screwed something up. > > You probly didn't have a ram disk for the 2.4.7 kernel. > > mkinitrd /boot/[initrd image] [new kernelversion] > > see http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade3.html > > -- > Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Dan Hensley Project Engineer - ATA Engineering, Inc. Westminster, CO W:303/464-7049 http://www.ata-engineering.com/
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