Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Debian help

["James" <bjlockie [ at ] lockie [ dot ] ca>]

On Fri, October 24, 2008 11:00 am, James wrote:
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade only tries to upgrade the kernel:
>
> │
> │
> │ You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version
> 2.6.18-6-486)      │
> │ This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to
> use initrd.    │ │ (An initrd image is a kernel image that
> expects to use an INITial Ram Disk to    │
> │ mount a minimal root file system into RAM and use that for
> booting).             │ │
>
>
> │ You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version
> 2.6.18-6-686)      │
> │ This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to
> use initrd.    │ │ (An initrd image is a kernel image that
> expects to use an INITial Ram Disk to    │
> │ mount a minimal root file system into RAM and use that for
> booting).

I upgraded the kernel and now it won't boot all the way.
It gives a bunch of grub errors and then continues booting but it hangs on
"NET: " something.
I am going to try booting from USB.