Re: lilo not "accepting" a new kernel
On 9 Apr 2006, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 03:05 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When I run lilo to integrate a new kernel, it is rejected.
>>> Anyone have a clue why?
>>>
>>>> lilo -v
>>> LILO version 22.6.1, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
>>> Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2004 John Coffman
>>> Released 17-Nov-2004, and compiled at 10:36:02 on Nov 29 2005
> [snip]
>>> optional
>>> initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.14-1-386
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, them names. I fell into that so many times, I now stick with
>> the symlinks vmlinuz and .old and even then I mix up who's old and
>> who's not... ;-)
>
> The limitation is that it only lets you have 2 kernels.
Umm. Look at the example script in:
/usr/share/doc/kernel-package/examples/sample.posthook.sh
That shows how to keep 4 kernels around. You can tweak that
script to keep 50 kernel around, assuming you actually have that many
lying around.
manoj
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