On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:33:51PM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> writes: > > > Isn't that the purpose of symlinks to kernel images? so you don't have > > to rerun for new kernels with same name? > > This is so that the lilo.conf doesn't need to be changed. The lilo > bootloader doesn't know anything about filesystems. And it doesn't > care about filenames. > > When you run lilo it saves raw disk block numbers for where the kernel > and its initrd is stored on disk. Since there is no trivial way to > ensure these blocknumbers don't change when you install a new kernel > you have to rerun lilo. > > Matthias > oops. now that I read it I see that I knew this. Thanks though. A
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