synaptic kernel

Michael Havens bmike101 at cox.net
Tue Jan 23 19:21:35 MST 2007


Yep. That's where it's always been!

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[~]$


You meant vmlinuz-2.4etc right? Or what is supposed to be in /boot?

On Tuesday 23 January 2007 10:37 am, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> 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.


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