Hi. I'm rather new to Linux. I used Knoppix to install Debian onto my system. Now I want to install a different kernel-image.
I'm trying to use Synaptic to install kernel-image-2.4.21-3-k7. It downloads it fine. It brings up a message: "You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version 2.4.21-3-k7) This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to use initrd. (An initrd image is a kernel image that expects to use an INITial Ram Disk to mount a minimal root file system into RAM and use that for booting)." It gives instructions for configuring lilo, and I tell it that I don't want to stop.
Here comes the problem (I think). It then says:
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Setting up kernel-image-2.4.21-3-k7 (2.4.21-3) ...
depmod: cannot read ELF header from /lib/modules/extra/build
depmod: cannot read ELF header from /lib/modules/extra/kernel
depmod: /lib/modules/extra/modules.dep is not an ELF file
depmod: /lib/modules/extra/modules.generic_string is not an ELF file
depmod: /lib/modules/extra/modules.ieee1394map is not an ELF file
depmod: /lib/modules/extra/modules.isapnpmap is not an ELF file
depmod: cannot read ELF header from /lib/modules/extra/modules.parportmap
depmod: /lib/modules/extra/modules.pcimap is not an ELF file
depmod: cannot read ELF header from /lib/modules/extra/modules.pnpbiosmap
depmod: /lib/modules/extra/modules.usbmap is not an ELF file
depmod: cannot read ELF header from /lib/modules/extra/net
depmod: cannot read ELF header from /lib/modules/extra/pcmcia
depmod: cannot read ELF header from /lib/modules/extra/usb
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-ad1816a.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-ali5451.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-als100.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-azt2320.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-azt3328.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-cmi8330.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-cmipci.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-cs4232.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-cs4236.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-cs4281.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-cs46xx.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-dt019x.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-ens1370.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-ens1371.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-es18xx.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-es1938.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-es968.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-ice1712.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-ice1724.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-intel8x0.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-interwave-stb.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-interwave.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-korg1212.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-maestro3.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-mixer-oss.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-msnd-pinnacle.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-nm256.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-opl3sa2.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-opti92x-ad1848.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-opti92x-cs4231.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-opti93x.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-pcm.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-pdplus.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-rawmidi.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-sb16.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-sbawe.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-seq-virmidi.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-seq.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-sonicvibes.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-sscape.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-trident.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-usb-audio.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-via82xx.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-vxpocket.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd-wavefront.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/extra/alsa/snd.o
There was a problem running depmod. This may be benign,
(You may have versioned symbol names, for instance).
Or this could be an error.
depmod exited with return value 1
Since this image uses initrd, I am not deleting the file
/lib/modules/2.4.21-3-k7/modules.dep. However, there is no
guarantee that the file is valid. I would strongly advice
you to either abort and fix the errors in depmod, or
regenerate the initrd image with a known good modules.dep
file. I repeat, an initrd kernel image with a bad modules.dep
shall fail to boot.
Would you like to abort now? [Yes]
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I've tried searching (google is usually my friend), and I still have no idea what this means or what to do. Most things I've found say that upgrading a kernel-image in Debian is quite painless. Um, this is scaring me off
What is the problem? What do I do? Any ideas?
andy