Re: new kernel too big for lilo
Craig Hagerman wrote:
> I am sure most of you will disagree with me but this is one area where
> I do NOT like doing things the debian way. Compiling and installing a
> kernel isn't something I do everyday but it is something that can mess
> up a system. I don't know what is automagically being done behind the
> scenes and I am very uncomfortable with that. I would much rather
> follow a manual compile-installation instruction so that I can add the
> new kernel to lilo by hand to try it out, knowing the working kernel
> is still safe.
You can do that easily the Debian way. Debian installs kernels in /boot;
just add them to lilo.conf by hand.
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-amd64-k8-smp
label=2.6.12-1
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-1-amd64-k8-smp
Not too hard. Or, even better, apt-get install grub.
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