Hi!

I happen to run into various problems regarding grub and kernels. I don't really care about the kernel internas. All I want is VMware server in that dedicated root-server.

1.) What is a bzImage vs. vmlinuz?

kaze:~# ls /boot/
System.map-2.6.32-5-amd64  bzImage-2.6.33.2   config-2.6.33.2  initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
System.map-2.6.33.2    bzImage-2.6.35.6   config-2.6.35.6  vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
System.map-2.6.35.6    config-2.6.32-5-amd64  grub

I updated my menu.lst (grub2):

timeout 5
default         0
fallback 1

title 2.6.32.5
    kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=/dev/sda2 panic=60 noapic acpi=off

title 2.6.35.6
    kernel (hd0,1)/boot//bzImage-2.6.35.6 root=/dev/sda2 panic=60  noapic acpi=off

title 2.6.32.3
    kernel (hd0,1)/boot//bzImage-2.6.33.2 root=/dev/sda2 panic=60  noapic acpi=off

That doesn't do well... I think the vmlinuz file is missing initrd or so. Dunno. In fact I don't give too much about kernel boot voodoo as long as it works. update-grub(2) does not work. Does anybody know what magical trick there is to get the 2.6.32-5 booting?

2.) I thought t follow the Deban wiki.. I cannot get header-files for the installed 35.6 or 33.2 kernel in the repositories. I cannot build foreign headers because they will not match the running kernel. So how does one deal with that situtation? I'd prefer not to have to downgrade the kernel.

Thanks for any answers!