Re: kernel compilation & LILO

2001-08-18 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Steve, Saturday, August 18, 2001, 5:48:02 AM, you wrote: >> This way you're able > Boot them? Who said anything about booting them? :-) I was just writing 'bout the _ability_ :-) -- Best regards, Petermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel compilation & LILO

2001-08-17 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:00:39PM +0200, Peter Palmreuther uttered: > This way you're able to archive even the last 10 kernels you build just for > fun and boot them to see _what da he**_ you changed since then :-) > Boot them? Who said anything about booting them? :-) If you used kernel-package,

Re: kernel compilation & LILO

2001-08-17 Thread George Karaolides
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with someone on the #debian > IRC channel re: compiling a custom kernel. He urged me to add the > following lines to my /etc/lilo.conf file: > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 > label=prev2217 > > ... and make

Re: kernel compilation & LILO

2001-08-17 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 17 Aug 2001 10:35:49 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with someone on the #debian > IRC channel re: compiling a custom kernel. He urged me to add the > following lines to my /etc/lilo.conf file: > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 > label=prev

Re: kernel compilation & LILO

2001-08-17 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello burningclown, On Friday, August 17, 2001 at 5:35:49 PM, you wrote (at least in part): > given this [working] addition to /etc/lilo.conf, should I be relatively safe > to go ahead and futz? You are! This [working] addition is a simple demonstration of multi-boot capabilities lilo offers. T

kernel compilation & LILO

2001-08-17 Thread burningclown
Hi, Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with someone on the #debian IRC channel re: compiling a custom kernel. He urged me to add the following lines to my /etc/lilo.conf file: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 label=prev2217 ... and make sure I could boot the system from this choice. It worke