On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:40:48AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:06:42AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:41:09PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > > > If the filename doesn't change (of the kernel image) i think neither > > > grub nor lilo need the update. But it doesn't hurt. Unless you changed > > > menu.lst without reading/understanding the instructions inside. > > > > lilo has to be called if it is a new file, even if it has the same > > name. > > Isn't that the purpose of symlinks to kernel images? so you don't have > to rerun for new kernels with same name?
lilo records the actual location of the file, in hardware disk addresses, so that it doesn't have to care about file systems at boot time. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
