Re: Can't boot new kernel (2.4.13) on Redhat 7.2 system

[Justin Gaither]

I am still unable to boot my new kernel.  It appears that it is not a
grub problem though, since it behaves the same if I use lilo.

Thanks for you help!  I will see if I can query the patch generator
about the failure

justin

Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> 
> 30.10.2001 21:48:19, Justin Gaither <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >Vesa,
> >       I was under the impression that an initrd was not required.  I had
> >tried previously to use mkinitrd but it did not make a difference.  Is
> >there anything special about using the mkinitrd, do I need to mount the
> >image and copy stuff to it?  Or can I just run the command?
> 
> As stated at:
> http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/kernel-upgrade/s1-appa.html
> 
> you should only do following:
> 
> mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.13 2.4.13
> 
> please check redhat's page that I mentioned... there is quite clear 
> instructions
> what to do...

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