Re: lilo not "accepting" a new kernel

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 23:25 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On  9 Apr 2006, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 03:05 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >> Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
> > [snip]
[snip]
> >
> > 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.

Or you can roll your own kernels and give them mnemonic symbols.

$ grep 'label=' /etc/lilo.conf
        label=kern-2.6.12-stk
        label=kern-2.6.14-stk
        label=kern-2.6.16-rlj

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