On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 21 June 2002 12:37 am, Graeme Robinson wrote: > > > I have registered but baulked at using up2date on the command line. > > Thanks for the explicit instructions. I take it that if I use up2date > > instead of manually downloading and installing I don't have to make the > > changes to lilo myself? (ie up2date updates and reconfigures lilo) > > I don't know, to be honest. Seems to me the last time I upgraded the > kernel on a machine using lilo, I had to update lilo.conf myself. Either > way, editing lilo.conf is painless, I wouldn't let that stop my > upgrading. After the rpms are updated, just check and be sure the new > kernel has been added to lilo.conf. > > lilo conf just needs a stanza for each kernel you want configured, like > so: > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-5 > label=linux > read-only > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-5.img > root=/dev/hda11 > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-4 > label=linux-old > read-only > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-4.img > root=/dev/hda11 > > The version numbers and root partition will be different in your case, but > you can copy the existing stanza, and change the kernel version. > > Once you have edited the file, don't forget to run lilo -v and check for > error messages. > > - -- > - -Michael thankyou all - here I go! -=-=-==-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Graeme Robinson - Graenet consulting www.graenet.com - internet solutions -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==---=-=--=-=-=
