Using Lilo to select different Kernels
I've recently installed 2.4.18 and 2.4.16-SMP kernels on two machines using
the prepackaged kernels. Easy. Very nice.
I'm in the process of learning to compile my own kernels, and since I do
everything the Debian way, i'll be a kpkg guy and build .debs of my custom
kernels, which will install in identical fashion, as the prepackaged kernels.
That said, as near as I can tell from looking in /boot, when one installe
a kernel in this fashion, everything is still there from the previous kernel
except the symlink from vmlinuz to the kernel or initrd image, so . . .
Is it possible to have multiple LILO entries to boot different kernels off
of the same /boot partition?
And as a followup, what's the difference between booting a kernel, and booting
an initrd image? Why have the prepackaged kernels moved to initrd? Why would I want to build my custom kernels to boot
as initrd images? Why wouldn't I?
TIA as this inquiring mind wants to know . . .
madmac
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Doug MacFarlane
madmac@covad.net
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