Re: laptop booting potato

[matthschulz <matthschulz@gmx.net>]

Just copying isn't enough, AFAIK, You have to tell the
bootloader where the kernel physically is. I dont remember how
to do without lilo - with lilo is clear - rerun lilo.


Matth

On Wed, 17 May 2000, cls--colo spgs wrote:
> debs,
> 
> i'm just upgrading my slink lapbox to potato (on the
> 2.0.36 kernel).  my boot hangs at scsi. 
> 
> i copied a scsi-free kernel into /boot.  but it still
> tries to boot the scsi kernel and then hangs.
> 
> i renamed /boot/linux to /boot/vmlinux-2.0.36, the name
> of the kernel that i had been using.  ...still "no go."
> 
> q:  where might i find the kernel that comes with
> potato?--what directory is it in?
> 
> or
> 
> q:  am i off-base by trying to replace slink's
> vmlinuz-2.0.36 with a scsi-free kernel (2.2.12...)?
> 
> ia, t.
> 
> bentley taylor.
> 
> //
> 
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