On 09/28/2007 03:18 PM, Nigel Henry wrote:
All my Debian installs, Sarge, Etch, and Lenny, originally started off as
Woody 3.0r2, and LiLo was, and still is the bootloader. I installed on Etch
yesterday the 2.6.18-5 kernel, which shows up in /boot ok, but running lilo
doesn't add it to lilo's menu.
I read a while back that earlier versions of lilo could only have 6 entries on
the menu. My lilo version is 1:22.6.1-9.3.
The original kernel when I installed Woody 3.0r2 was a bf one. It is still
listed in /boot, and on lilo's menu. but is nowhere to be seen in synaptic,
and no longer will boot with Etch. On the face of it, I can't see how to
remove this original boot floppy kernel.
Can I just delete all references to the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel in /boot? Then run
lilo again. It seems a bit of a hack, but I can't see any way around it as
synaptic doesn't even list the bf kernel, and you can't uninstall something
that's not on the list.
/etc/lilo.conf is below. [...]
I have very little experience with Lilo under Debian, though I used it
under Slackware.
I don't know about the six item limit, but I suggest you manually delete
the references to the bf kernels, but read "man liloconfig" and "man
update-lilo" first. If the bf kernels do not appear in /boot,
update-lilo may remove them from /etc/lilo.conf automatically.
I also suggest that you remove, possibly using synaptic, any kernels
that don't boot the system up properly.
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