[LUNI] Kernel 2.4.25 -> 2.6.5 on Sarge - So fun the first time lets do it again

[Sean T. Evans]

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me at heyjay.com wrote:
| Hi again,
|
| I'm attempting to update Sarge (out of the box) w/kernel 2.4.25 -> kernel
| 2.6.5.  Sarge uses grub.  As usual my kernel is panicking.  I'm
wondering if
| I need to do something like:
|
|  $ cd /boot
|  $ mkinitrd -r /dev/hda -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.5
|  $ mv /initrd.img /initrd.img-old
|  $ ln -s /boot/initrd.img-2.6.5 /initrd.img
|
| And make the proper modifications to the /etc/grub/menu.lst
|

That sounds similar to both the problem and the solution when I did the
same thing this week. I didn't add the initrd info to lilo.conf and had
a kernel panic related to not being able to access the / partition.
Seems that the debian default kernel has ext2 and ext3 support as modules.

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