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Re: new kernel too big for lilo



On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 12:37:12AM +0900, 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

If you do it ALL the Debian way, it's just fine. You should see your new
kernels added into the LILO configuration automatically, or at least the
GRUB configuration (preferred to LILO these days).

> new kernel to lilo by hand to try it out, knowing the working kernel
> is still safe.

If you have it update your configuration file automatically you get
exactly that.

Another part of the Debian way is that you rarely need to compile your
own kernel these days. What did you need to change?

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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