Re: Hard Drive Upgrade
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel J Kruszyna <krus3669@kettering.edu> writes:
Daniel> I just recently upgraded the hard drive on my Debian machine (an intel box
Daniel> running potato), and while everything copied successfully, I could not get
Daniel> the new hard disk to boot. I then changed my lilo.conf to point to
Daniel> "/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14" instead of the symlink at "/vmlinuz", and
Daniel> everythinig worked fine. Does anyone know what's going on here? How
Daniel> come lilo doesn't recognize the symlink like it did before? If you
Daniel> any more information, just let me know. Thanks.
Had you run `lilo' on the new drive before you tried to reboot? If
not, then what it was is that the kernel isn't at the same block
address as it was on the other disk...
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