Spontaneous Reboot

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:18:23AM -0500, Stephen Allen wrote:
> Been following this thread with interest. I've also been running the
> '*.bf2.4', not realizing that it was only intended for the install
> process. You're not kidding about it's lousy preformance. I'm running
> SpamAssassin, and it often bogs the whole system down, if it's scanning
> a fair bit of e-mail. :(
> 
> Anyway, took your advice and installed '2.4.18-386.img' and during the
> install process one is prompted to add a 'initrd=/initrd' stanza to
> one's lilo.conf -- which I did. However on running lilo after the
> install, it's spits out this on parsing the 'initrd=/initrd' line;
> 'Fatal: /initrd: neither a reg. file nor a block dev'.

It should have been initrd=/initrd.img

> What gives? I'm afraid to reboot with a message like that, any pointers?
> I'm dreadfully scared to mess with the kernel, but thought I should at
> least install a proper kernel, as per your suggestion.

There was a version of kernel-pacakge released that used initrd instead
of initrd.img by mistake.  Maybe the message was left over from that.

Lennart Sorensen
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