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Re: Does lilo still have a limit on it's menu entries?



On 09/28/2007 03:18 PM, Nigel Henry wrote:
All my Debian installs, Sarge, Etch, and Lenny, originally started off as Woody 3.0r2, and LiLo was, and still is the bootloader. I installed on Etch yesterday the 2.6.18-5 kernel, which shows up in /boot ok, but running lilo doesn't add it to lilo's menu.

I read a while back that earlier versions of lilo could only have 6 entries on the menu. My lilo version is 1:22.6.1-9.3.

The original kernel when I installed Woody 3.0r2 was a bf one. It is still listed in /boot, and on lilo's menu. but is nowhere to be seen in synaptic, and no longer will boot with Etch. On the face of it, I can't see how to remove this original boot floppy kernel.

Can I just delete all references to the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel in /boot? Then run lilo again. It seems a bit of a hack, but I can't see any way around it as synaptic doesn't even list the bf kernel, and you can't uninstall something that's not on the list.

/etc/lilo.conf is below. [...]

I have very little experience with Lilo under Debian, though I used it under Slackware.

I don't know about the six item limit, but I suggest you manually delete the references to the bf kernels, but read "man liloconfig" and "man update-lilo" first. If the bf kernels do not appear in /boot, update-lilo may remove them from /etc/lilo.conf automatically.

I also suggest that you remove, possibly using synaptic, any kernels that don't boot the system up properly.



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