Re: Upgrading Kernel to 2.2.16-3

[Jaswinder Singh Kohli <jskohli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't understand y are u usin initrd(i.e. init(Initial) r(Ram)d(disk)
it is basically required on installation systems


Sunil Dhaka wrote:

> Hi guys,
> My recent hd crash with the d/l RHL 7 disk1 iso file and inability to
> recover despite an init 1 boot and an fdisk /mbr has made me bolder to
> try out different things. So I decided to try a kernel upgrade [all u
> power users must be guffawing and esp Raj ;-) ]
> Neways, I went right ahead and tried it out. All worked well till the
> lilo -v
> As per the pcq Aug 2K instructions, I was to recheck the lilo.conf file.
> Did that and still the same result -- lilo died with the message
> "initrd-2.2.14-12.img -- no such file or directory". Well I commented
> the entire reference to the linuxold.
> Ran lilo -v
> SUCCESS
> Rebooted >>
> Login screen >>
> Zoot Kernel 2.2.16-3 on i686
>
> No sweat
>
> I suggest PCQ guys should recommend more work arounds if faced with an
> unending error.
>
> Sunil Dhaka
>
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