It uses a boot loader called silo. Looks and acts very much like grub. I did have to edit /etc/silo.conf after the upgrade, (yum didn't get the default kernel set right). But I always do that anyway. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.rossberry.com On 23 Jan 2003, seth vidal wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 11:08, Jim Wildman wrote: > > A testimony to portability. I have a Sun UltraSparc 2 on which I run > > Aurora Linux (RedHat for Sparc). They released a new version, I pulled > > the rpms to another box, ran yum-arch, then went to the Sparc box and > > did a yum upgrade. > > > > > cool. > > One question - how does aurora linux boot? Does it write a config file > out for the new kernels that get installed. There is a stub for kernel > upgrades that is left for other types of bootloaders - if you know how > the one for aurora linux works and how/where you have to add the entries > for the kernels I think I could be convinced to put that in. > > -sv >
