Bug 87441
| Summary: | Lilo doesn't allow to use kernel-2.4.18-27 | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Marcin <mdramin> |
| Component: | up2date | Assignee: | Adrian Likins <alikins> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fanny Augustin <fmoquete> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | mdramin |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-08-20 20:26:49 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Could you verify that the kernel package was installed correctly by running `rpm -V kernel`? [draminsk@164-tor-1 draminsk]$ rpm -V kernel-2.4.18-27.7.x .M...... /dev/shm up2date put in the vmlinux instead of the vmlinuz in the lilo.conf file. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020913 Description of problem: When upgrading using the up2date tool, from kernel 2.4.18-24.7.x to 2.4.18-27.7.x I get the following error after changing the /etc/lilo.conf file and running lilo Fatal: Kernel doesn't support initial RAM disks Here is my lilo file prompt timeout=50 default=linux boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b message=/boot/message lba32 image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.18-27.7.x label=linux root=/dev/hdb2 read-only initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-27.7.x.img image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-24.7.x label=linux.bak root=/dev/hdb2 read-only initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-24.7.x.img other=/dev/hda1 optional label=DOS Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): lilo-21.4.4-14 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install using rpm or automatically using up2date the new kernel 2.4.18-24.7.x 2.using up2date the program crashes 3.edit mannualy the /etc/lilo.conf file and run lilo Actual Results: Fatal: Kernel doesn't support initial RAM disks Expected Results: Added linux * Added linux.bak Added DOS Additional info: I don't use any RAM disks as far as I know and haven't played with recompiling the kernel. The default one always used to work.