question

[aaron bukovac]

it looks like it has nothing to do with the initrd
file it looks like i have one of the feared irongate
chipsets on my motherboard and thats whats flaking the
kernel rebuilds

--- Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
> If you are using your old initrd, that could be your
> problem.  The initrd
> file is an initial ram disk that the kernel has
> access to that hold modules
> that it would need on boot, such as scsi or RAID
> drivers.   More than
> likely, unless you are using scsi or booting off a
> RAID, you probably don't
> need one at all.   If you do find that you need one
> you can make a new one
> by running the command such as mkinitrd
> /boot/initrd-2.45-1.img 2.4.1
> 
> You also need a distro that is capable of running a
> 2.4 kernel.  I
> personally don't know if Stormix/Debian is right
> now, but I know that bad
> things can happen if you try to run a kernel on a
> system that isn't ready
> for it.  I personally have been running it for a
> while on a Mandrake 7.2
> distro and it's awesome compared to the 2.2
> kernels....  soooo much smoother
> on my little SMP system.... and all the stupid
> hardware problems that the
> 2.2 kernel had with a BP6 motherboard are all gone.
> I would definatly check around to see if stormix is
> ready though.
> 
> Brian Cluff
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> > im running stormix 2.04 with kernel 2.2.16 and for
> > some reason im having an issue with making a new
> > kernel im trying to use either the 2.4.0 kernel
> source
> > or the 2.4.1 source for some reason it will make
> > bzImage correctly but then after i add it to my
> > lilo.conf it freaks out gets to the now booting
> your
> > kernel and doesnt do anything .... oh im using an
> msi
> > k7pro motherboard with an amdk7/550 i also have a
> > bootable scsi card and was wondering if that was
> why
> > it wasnt working correctly ... in my original
> install
> > it makes an initrd file ref. in my root.bin but
> when i
> > do the kernel upgrade it doesnt put a new initrd
> ref ...
> >
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