Re: LILO: Wrong Loader ..
> On Fri, 6 Jun 1997 mfrattola@mail.enjoy.it wrote:
>
> > Disclaimer: it's my fault, I know.
> > On a stable (1.1.13) debian box I tried to upgrade the kernel from install
> > 2.0.6 to a home-built 2.0.27. The home built kernel is known to work, so this
> > is not the problem. I built it via kernel-package, so I could install it with
> > dpkg. After that, I reboot to test the new kernel (ERROR: I know 2.0.27 needs a
> > newer lilo, like 17-2 (the one I usually install with 2.0.27 - and they work!))
^^^^^
THIS IS MY SECOND ERROR IN A ROW
> > The reboot came up with a
> >
> > LILO: Wrong Loader .. Giving up
> >
> > message, or something like that.
> > I realized I missed lilo upgrade, so rebuilt a boot disk and installed lilo-17-2
> > Reboot and .. same message. So I looked for lilo dependecies, and it depends
> > on mbr. Upgraded also mbr, same message.
> > What can I do to make that box boot again?
>
> I had exactly the same configuration, new kernel version and boot problem.
> I upgraded lilo to version 19-2, reran lilo and the new kernel was
> bootable. According to /usr/lib/kernel-package/rules the kernel is made
> as bzImage instead of zImage if you use make-kpkg. Therefore another
> solution could be modifying /usr/lib/kernel-package/rules to make a
> zImage. I haven't tried that one.
>
> I do not use mbr in the boot process and always configure lilo.conf by
> hand so that could make the difference.
>
> In short, lilo 19-2 can and should work with kernel-source 2.0.27 and
> kernel-package 3.03.
>
> Hope this helps narrowing down the problem.
I think you're totally right. I figured it out myself this morning (sleeping
always help) that lilo-17.2 could not be right, and that I'd have used the one
coming with debian 1.2 (which is 19.2, IIRC, like you say).
Thank you very much.
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