synaptic kernel

Eric "Shubes" plug at shubes.net
Tue Jan 23 10:37:17 MST 2007


It's in /boot/, not /.

Michael Havens wrote:
> Yep.... it is there.
> Here is menu.lst (which is in /boot/grub) for your review.
> 
> 	imeout 15
> 	color cyan/blue white/blue
> 	foreground ffffff
> 	background 0639a1
> 
> 	gfxmenu /boot/grub/message
> 
> 	title Mepis with the 2-4 kernel
> 	root (hd0,0)
> 	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-k6 root=/dev/hda1 nomce quiet vga=791 acpi=off
> 	initrd /initrd.img-2.4.27-2-k6
> 	boot
> 		
> 	title MEPIS with kernel 2.6.15-26-386
> 	root (hd0,0)
> 	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-26-386 root=/dev/hda1 nomce quiet vga=791
> 		acpi=off
> 	boot
> 
> 	title MEMTEST
> 
> 
> On Sunday 21 January 2007 11:00 pm, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
>> Have you added it to menu.lst? It can't find it if you don't tell it where
>> it is.
>>
>> Michael Havens wrote:
>>> Today 5:45:05 am
>>>
>>> bmike1 at 1[~]$ ls /boot
>>> abi-2.6.15-26-386     initrd.img-2.4.27-2-k6    System.map-2.6.15-26-386
>>> config-2.4.27-2-k6    initrd.img-2.6.15-26-386  vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-k6
>>> config-2.6.15-26-386  memtest86+.bin            vmlinuz-2.6.15-26-386
>>> grub                  System.map-2.4.27-2-k6
>>> bmike1 at 1[~]$
>>>
>>> So why would it complain about it being missing?
>>>
>>> On Saturday 20 January 2007 9:00 pm, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
>>>> That's where it belongs, right next to the kernel (in the same /boot/
>>>> directory). It's the initiator-ram-drive (I think that's what the name
>>>> means) image, which is used in the boot process. You need the initrd
>>>> line in menu.lst to reference it.


-- 
-Eric 'shubes'


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