Re: LiloCan't Boot vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64

Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,29.Aug.08, 21:24:21, Thomas H. George wrote:

Indeed the problem appears to be with kernels as kernel panic occurs
after a message that no ramdisk is found at 0. During the dist-upgrade
mkinitrd is automatically run for each of the three kernel images
mentioned above. When the system is booted with any of the three kernel
images the initial installation of the kernel completes with no
difficulty. It is after this that the newer kernels cannot find the ram
disk. The vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-amd64 kernel does not have this problem and
completes the boot up successfully.
There is a bug in lilo that prevents it to load too big initrds. Please show the output of 'ls -la /boot' to check for this. If this is the case you can only try to make a smaller initrd. Setting "MODULES=dep" in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf might help.

Regards,
Andrei
The attached listing of initrd.img file sizes shows only a slight increase from kernel to kernel.

Tom Script started on Sun 31 Aug 2008 11:20:06 AM EDT
Phoenix:/var/state# ls -l /boot/initrd.*
-rw------- 1 root root 7657200 2008-08-29 09:36 [00m/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-amd64
-rw------- 1 root root 7804926 2008-08-29 09:36 [00m/boot/initrd.img-2.6.25-2-amd64
-rw------- 1 root root 7872304 2008-08-29 09:37 [00m/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-amd64

Script done on Sun 31 Aug 2008 11:20:47 AM EDT

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