Re: lilo and /boot partition confusion

2005-06-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya joe On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Joe McCool wrote: > My lilo.conf features lines with \vmlinuz and \vmlinuz.old etc. i assume you mean: /vmlinuz and there is no such thing in linux as \vmlinuz as far as the kernel file itself though you can name it anything you like it c

Re: lilo and /boot partition confusion

2005-06-23 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:55:52AM +0100, Joe McCool wrote: > My lilo.conf features lines with \vmlinuz and \vmlinuz.old etc. > > These vmlinuz's are links to vmlinuz*2* files in my \boot directory. I hope you mean "/" instead of "\" in all cases. :-) > 1st confusion: > But my /boot directory sh

Re: lilo and /boot partition confusion

2005-06-23 Thread Marty
I (Marty) wrote: Joe McCool wrote: Sorry I can't answer the first questions. I have upgraded from woody to sarge and everything is fine, but when I try to upgrade from 2.2.20 to 2.4.27, compiling and installing the new kernel as per the instruction manual, I cannot boot. (40 40 40 40 or just

Re: lilo and /boot partition confusion

2005-06-23 Thread Marty
Joe McCool wrote: Sorry I can't answer the first questions. I have upgraded from woody to sarge and everything is fine, but when I try to upgrade from 2.2.20 to 2.4.27, compiling and installing the new kernel as per the instruction manual, I cannot boot. (40 40 40 40 or just Li and never a li

lilo and /boot partition confusion

2005-06-23 Thread Joe McCool
Thanks to all debians. Please forgive my ignorance, but my google searches have failed to answer my confusion; My lilo.conf features lines with \vmlinuz and \vmlinuz.old etc. These vmlinuz's are links to vmlinuz*2* files in my \boot directory. 1st confusion: But my /boot directory should (?) be