Hi everybody,

My Linux box hang after kernel upgrade! What can I work fine with 2.4.17 kernal? I would like to upgrade kernel to 2.4.17 and using MOSIX? My procedure are as following

1. patch -p0 < /root/MOSIX-1.5.7/patches.2.4.13
2. make menuconfig( I just set the MOSIX part
3. make dep
4. make clean
5. make bzImage
6. copy bzImage to /boot/
7. config lilo.conf

image= /boot/bzImage
label= Linux_2.4.17
root= /dev/hda1

8. lilo
9. reboot

After reboot, I choose the new kernal to run and reult is
"Loading Linux_2.4.17.............."

What wrong occur in my upgrading? Did I need do more step? What is the meaning of "initrd"? It is because I found that word in my lilo.conf and the statement is "initrd=/boot/initrd.suse"!



:smash:

initrd can be made with mkinitrd $filename $version

replace $filename with the filename you want for the image

replace $version with the version of the kernel

like this

mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.17.img 2.4.17


it will look in /lib/modules for the 2.4.17 folder so if you did not run


make modules
make modules_install

it will not work

Thanks DavidPhillips,

I would like to do kernel image, and I can't mkinitrd in /sbin. But I checked one command mk_initrd and I try this. But the error came from this:

stor:/boot # mk_initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.17.img 2.4.17
ls: : No such file or directory
/sbin/mk_initrd: [: : integer expression expected
root device is LVM
usage: mk_initrd [root_dir]

What problem came from? It make me very confuse!

Thanks for your help!

Don't forget that all those make param's can go on one line... saves having to wait until step 2 is done to do step 3, and so forth.

i.e.,

make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install <enter>

Then just sit back and ... pray.

you can but makes it harder to check for errors.



I don't have mk_initrd, the args are probably different

try mk_initrd --help or man mk_initrd


maybe it just needs to know where /boot is.

It will probably create a file named initrd in /boot using the kernel you have linked to /boot/vmlinuz

you could always rename the image