Problem with boot

[Brian Schramm <bschramm@schramms.yi.org>]

I am running Potato.  I have my kernel customised so I can write to my ide
cd-rom.  I also am running a 45G ide drive.

If I install the kernel from the deb file and tell it to make a boot
floppy and a lilo image everything works.  But if I run lilo or try mkboot
that does not work.  Can anyone tell me what the difference is and how I
can doplicate the job that the deb package does?  I hate to re-install my
kernel just because I needed to change something in lilo.conf.

Thanks for the help.

Brian Schramm
brian@schramms.yi.org
www.linuxexpert.org