I bit the bullet and after backing up the 3 files that I needed from the
system I rebooted. It worked fine, and I guess that makes sense withthe
way that silo (sparc linux loader) boots.
Thanks for the advise...
Deepak Saxena wrote:
> On Aug 13 2003, at 20:01, Rob Wultsch was caught saying:
>
>>I just went through my /boot on my sparc deleating all the kernel that I
>>made that did not work (btw I made a bunch) and I deleated vmlinuz,
>>which was probaly not a good thing. My new kernel is vmlinux-1.0, but
>>isn't there something that needs vmlinuz there?
>
>
> DOH! Vmlinuz is the compressed bootimage while vmlinux is usually
> a raw elf image of the kernel. Bootloaders generally expect a
> compressed bootimage, not an elf image. Of course, if you just
> copied arch/sparc/boot/zImage to /boot/vmlinux-1.0, then you should
> be OK as long as your bootloader is pointing to it.
>
> ~Deepak
>
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