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.
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.