On Thursday 16 December 2004 2230, somebody named Kevin B. McCarty inscribed this message: > The equivalent x86 tools are lilo or grub. One thing you need to be > aware of: the x86 BIOS is much dumber than OpenFirmware. So if you use > lilo, you must re-run the "/sbin/lilo" program every time the kernel > location changes, even just the inode (e.g. by installing or upgrading a > kernel image), otherwise you may find yourself unable to boot. The > Debian kernel packages do this automatically upon install / upgrade, but > you should be aware of it if you compile your own kernel. > > I think grub gets around this limitation in some way, but I'm not > completely sure as I don't use it.
The update-grub script maybe - it will generate a menu.1st for you based on the kernel images it finds in /boot. It can be run automagically when installing a new kernel pretty easily - details in the man page so I won't reiterate them here. I'm using it and it works quite nicely - switched to grub from lilo a couple months ago and personally like grub much better. :^) NRH -- I believe in de-evolution. God made the world perfect, man fell, and its been going downhill ever since. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
