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Author Re: Debian Kernel booting problem
Mumia W.

2006-08-08, 1:14 pm

On 08/08/2006 09:36 AM, ~David~ wrote:
>
> Mumia W. wrote:
>
> Compiled in directly - I try to use modules as little as possible.
>
> Thanks for the tip, the standard deb kernel seems to have a lot of modules in it.
>
> Checked that a million times... It's correct.
>
> I used the command mkinitrd -o /boot/image_name.img which made an image file,
> though how can I tell if it is linked to the correct kernel sources, 2.6.17.7,
> instead of the default 2.6.8?
>


I don't know for sure. I avoid using an initrd; however, the
man-page of mkinitrd says that by default, mkinitrd constructs
an image that uses the modules for your current kernel version.

For you, what this means is that /boot/image_name.img contains
modules for linux 2.6.8 rather than for 2.6.17; this would
certainly explain the boot failure.

I suspect you need to do this:

mkinitrd -o /boot/image_name.img 2.6.17.7

> Thanks for the tips, I'll try compiling more options in that the default kernel
> uses directly,
> David


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