Re: lilo problem

[Jacob Anawalt <jacob@cachevalley.com>]

maillist@bestworldweb.homelinux.com wrote:

> Thanks for the help everyone, especially Michael. With your help I
> managed to get it working :)
>
> On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 15:03, Michael Bellears wrote:
>  
>
> > > > Ensure that /vmlinuz exists.
> > > >        
> > > It does on /dev/hdc8
> > >      
> > Please show the output of mount.
> >    
Cool, now that you've been through that and got it working, ever looked 
at Grub?

* You don't have to run /sbin/grub every time you install a new kernel
* If you forget to add the new config entry describing your new kernel 
you can still load the new kernel on reboot from the grub command line.
** Because of those features, if you had purged the kernel package for 
your configured boot kernel, you would still have a chance of booting 
into Debian, as long as some version of the kernel is installed.

Although the method of defining drives is different than /dev/hd*, once 
you get the knack of it, the config file isn't that hairy. Just install 
grub-doc with grub and read the documentation.

# By default, boot the second entry.
default 1

# Boot default automatically after 30 seconds
timeout 30

# Fallback to the first entry if the default fails
fallback 0

# Debian Sid, Woody bf2.4 kernel
title Debian Sid install kernel
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 ro root=/dev/hda3

# Debian Sid 2.4.20-3-k7
title Debian Sid 2.4.20-3-k7 with Alsa
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-3-k7 ro root=/dev/hda3
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.20-3-k7

# Debian Sid 2.4.21-4-k7
title Debian Sid 2.4.21-4-k7 no sound
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-4-k7 ro root=/dev/hda3
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.21-4-k7

--
Jacob