initrd ?
by agropec from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6EAHP)
hello
At the end of the installation of v 15, appeared a "note" in weird English, BTW; saying that i have to do something with initrd! i did it with old versions.
The thing is that i have had 1 ibm laptop for almost 23 years, with sda1 OpenBSD, sda2 Debian, and sda3 Slackware working perfectly.
But 1 week ago, my HD was broken, and i did a reinstallation using Slackware 15, by my surprise, it is more weird than Slackware 7 which was the king, for me.
First, at the end of installation, there is a very confuse note, at least by me, do you remember KISS ? talking about initrd, i stop there because it is unclear, it is written in european English, that has many words but no sense!
Edited.
What it says is:
Use huge kernel, it does not need initrd !
Second, lilo does not recognize OpenBSD and Debian.
Edited:
v i4.2 did the same initrd thing.
Third, lilo said that there is not a correct boot for Debian.
In few words, i had to go back to 14.2 and a question, does somebody know why and how to deal with that please?
Edited:
i went back to v 15, and it does not recognize Debian; OpenBSD is ok now.
The process was the same:
Partitions with cfdisk first and install Slack at the end!
install OpenBSD
install Debian
Thanks for your attention.
Thanks Pat
At the end of the installation of v 15, appeared a "note" in weird English, BTW; saying that i have to do something with initrd! i did it with old versions.
The thing is that i have had 1 ibm laptop for almost 23 years, with sda1 OpenBSD, sda2 Debian, and sda3 Slackware working perfectly.
But 1 week ago, my HD was broken, and i did a reinstallation using Slackware 15, by my surprise, it is more weird than Slackware 7 which was the king, for me.
First, at the end of installation, there is a very confuse note, at least by me, do you remember KISS ? talking about initrd, i stop there because it is unclear, it is written in european English, that has many words but no sense!
Edited.
What it says is:
Use huge kernel, it does not need initrd !
Second, lilo does not recognize OpenBSD and Debian.
Edited:
v i4.2 did the same initrd thing.
Third, lilo said that there is not a correct boot for Debian.
In few words, i had to go back to 14.2 and a question, does somebody know why and how to deal with that please?
Edited:
i went back to v 15, and it does not recognize Debian; OpenBSD is ok now.
The process was the same:
Partitions with cfdisk first and install Slack at the end!
install OpenBSD
install Debian
Thanks for your attention.
Thanks Pat