[olug] Can't boot to 2.6 Kernel

[Brandon Lederer]

just curious.... Why do you _need_ initrd?







On Friday 05 March 2004 09:19 pm, CM Miller wrote:
> --- Jay Swackhamer <Jay at RebootTheUser.com> wrote:
> > It looks like the version of mkinitrd needs to
> > specify the
> > module dir instead of just the kernel version
> >
> > your modules are located under
> > /lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION
> >
> > so you could try
> >
> > mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.2.6.3.gz /lib/modules/2.6.3
>
> I've done the following:
>
> root at xanadu:/boot# mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.2.6.3.gz
> /usr/src/linux.2.6.3#
> /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: /usr/src/linux.2.6.3#: Not a
> directory
> /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: MODULES needs to be set to none?
>
>
> root at xanadu:/boot# lilo -t -v
> LILO version 22.5.8 (test mode), Copyright (C)
> 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
> Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2003
> John Coffman
> Released 10-Oct-2003, and compiled at 15:58:18 on Oct
> 11 2003
> Compiled for Debian GNU/Linux.
>
> Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
> Using MENU secondary loader
> Calling map_insert_data
>
> Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-xfs
> Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd.gz
> Added Linux *
>
> Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3
> Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd.2.6.3.gz
> Fatal: Empty map section
>
>
> Uh oh, Fatal: Empty map section, this doesn't look
> good.  Searching the web didn't turn up anything to
> solve this...other than having map=/boot/map in
> lilo.conf...It is there.
>
> I re-ran lilo
>
> root at xanadu:/sbin# ./lilo
> Added Linux *
> Fatal: Empty map section
>
> Any ideas on how to fix this?
>
> -Chris
>
>
>
>
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