Re: Debian booting new kernel

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Devin Atencio (<devin@burgoyne.com>) wrote:

> I am kind of stumped cause I downloaded the kernel-source-2.4.23 from
> apt-get, Then ran make-kpkg kernel_image. I then ran dpkg -i
> kernel-image-whatever.deb And installed the kernel. When I reboot the 
> machine it still boots the old kernel.
> I even looked at my /etc/lilo.conf and it points to /boot/vmlinuz for
> the default Entry and /boot/vmlinuz is a symbolic link to the 
> vmlinuz-2.4.23 kernel file.

Did you rerun lilo? dkpg should have asked you for it, but try to run
lilo again manually to make sure.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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