[plug] system hangs after kernel upgrade

[Lance Duivenbode]

Oops! Yes - definitely make sure you run 'lilo' before rebooting. You 
can tell I'm a GRUB user :)

Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:

>Quoting Lance Duivenbode <lduivenb-mlist at iinet.net.au>:
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>>Jon,
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>>I'm not sure about aptitude, but I know that when I upgrade machines 
>>from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel apt usually displays a message before 
>>installing the image. This message states (and repeats) the need to 
>>manually insert the 'initrd' parameter to your boot loader config and 
>>requires you to enter 'Y' so you are you you want to proceed.
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>>For GRUB, all you need to add is the line:
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>>initrd /initrd.img
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>>to your /boot/grub/menu.lst file at the appropriate location (note that 
>>it is '.lst' with a lowercase 'L' not the number '1').
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>>For LILO you need to add the line
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>>initrd = /initrd.img
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>>to your /etc/lilo.conf file at the appropriate location.
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>And don't forget to re-run lilo!!!
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># lilo -v
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>Tomasz
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>>Finally, note that Debian usually creates a symlink at /initrd.img to 
>>the latest version of the init image. If you want to run multiple custom 
>>kernels, then the above lines need to be changed to point to the correct 
>>init file.
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>>Hope this helps,
>>Lance
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>>Jon Miller wrote:
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>>>Craig,
>>>So you are saying that using aptitude to install does not pass the initrd
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>>command?  Can you refresh my memory with either a document that describes
>>this or the command to be used as I've not done this before.
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>>>Thanks
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>>>Jon
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>>>>>>craig at postnewspapers.com.au 1:35:29 am 5/01/2006 >>>
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>>>On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:21:38PM +0800, Jon  Miller wrote:
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>>>>I'm attempting to do an kernel upgrade from 2.4.27-2-686  to 2.6.8-2-686
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>>and when the system boot it hangs at the prompt /sbin/init: 432: Connot open
>>dev/console No such file.
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>>>Most likely you forgot to include the initrd on the boot command line.
>>>The initrd is required to set up udev, without which you won't get far.
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