Problems swithcing _from_ initrd kernel

From: stan (stanb_at_panix.com)
Date: 07/30/04

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    Last night I tried to take a "unstable" system from the 2.4 series of
    kernels to 2.6. Here's what I did.

    I downloaded teh apropriate 2.6 kernel mage pacakge & installed it. During
    this, I was prompted to change lilo,conf to use initrd. I did this, and the
    machine rebooted OK, except for a few issues, tat told me I needed to build
    a custom kernel (network driver did not automaicly laod, but could be
    loaded with modprobe). So, I downloaded the 2.6 kernel source package, ran
    make menuconfig, and built a non initrd kerenl with kernel-package. Then I
    used dpkg to install this.

    When I rebooted the machine it was unable to mount the filesystems, I'm
    using esierfs, and I had put that in the kernel build (not as a module).
    The machine would not boot from kernel.OLD either.

    I was able to boot it of a rescue disk, and remake all the right links etc
    to go back to the kernel from the .deb. The I remade the custom kernel,
    this time makeing it as a initrd image. This works.

    But, I would prefer to not use initrd. Any idea why this failed? 

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