Re: lost /vmlinuz
Thanks Randy, that worked perfectly! BTW, any idea as to what caused the
problem to begin with? I got the 2.2.12 kernel when I "dist-upgrade" to potato,
then the 2.2.15-idepci kernel by way of "apt-get install
kernel-image-2.2.15-idepci" and when I ran "apt-get upgrade" last night the
package mgmt didn't like the way I acquired 2.2.15-idepci :(
> > apt-get upgrade tried to upgrade my kernel image. I moved 2.2.15-idepci
> > to .old and apt installed a new image but now when lilo tries to boot
> > off the hard drive it complains that /vmlinuz is missing.
>
> Yes, you've got exactly the idea -- recreate the vmlinuz symbolic link.
>
> As you've probably deduced, /vmlinuz is just a symbolic link pointing to
> the "real" kernel file which is located in /boot.
>
> As root, do the following:
>
> "cd /" (make sure we're in the root directory.
>
> "rm vmlinuz" (delete the old symbolic link because it's probably broken;
> we're going to recreate the symbolic link below anyway)
>
> "ln -s boot/2.2.15-idepci vmlinuz" (recreate the symbolic link; this of
> course will differ depending on what your kernel in /boot is named)
>
> "liloconfig" (run liloconfig so that lilo knows about the new kernel and can
> boot it)
>
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