On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:39:44AM -0500, christian@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Excerpt of message (sent 16 March 2003) by Charles: > > Using up2date doesn't destroy your old kernel, either, so if > > something isn't quite right, you can use the older one. > > Out of curiosity, how would you "use" such an older kernel? > > My puzzle: After upgrading to 8.0, the machine booted into some old > Enigma kernel, and many devices don't work. Rpm reports the correct, > new kernel but uname gives the old. Lilo complained because /boot was > wiped empty. I can boot off the rescue disk, and everything works > nicely. I'd like to be able to boot off the hard disk some day. > > Christian The answer to the first question is to have a clause in lilo.conf for every kernel you want to boot. Then run lilo. This will also handle the booting the wrong kernel problem. I do not understand your statement that /boot was wiped empty. Well the kernel and associated files must be in /boot for you to boot from the hard drive. Also you can't boot from the rescue disk. Do you meant you are booting from a boot disk you made during or after installation? It is the kernel on that disk that you are running if that is what you did. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
