Re: Silo, Lilo, Grub and a new kernel

[Daniel Liikamaa <danlii@frozenbanana.net>]

On ons, 2006-08-16 at 18:05 +1000, John wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an Ultra 5 running Debian Etch on 2.4.18. It uses Silo as I've
> never been game to change it to Lilo or Grub on the basis 'if it aint
> broke, don't fix it!'
> 
> I've just compiled and installed a brand new kernel 2.6.16. (vmlinuz
> is still pointing at 2.4.18)
> 
> Q. How do I get Silo to offer me the choice of kernel on boot? (I
> don't want to be left hung out to dry if my new kernel has a panic)
> 
> TIA
> 
> John

You can't run lilo on a sparc, silo is the sparc alternative, so to
speak.
And as for your question; you just relink vmlinuz to your new kernel and
reboot. Silo works a little bit like grub, you don't have to reinstall
the boot sector every time you upgrade your kernel.
Oh, and you can gzip the kernel if you like, "make" on the sparc doesn't
do this itself, that's why the kernel it produces is called vmlinux and
not vmlinuz. :)

Hope this helped you.

//Daniel