Fwd: Re: New kernel

[Bryce C]

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A) lilo needs to be rerun everytime a config change is made as opposed
to grub which reads the file of your hard drive at boot.
B) I've found grub to be compatible on more hardware than lilo.
Can someone disprove me on this?

On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 14:59, Michael Havens wrote:
> That didn't come out right.
> Now it is.
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> Subject: Re: New kernel
> Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:00:52 -0700
> From: Michael Havens <bmike1@vei.net>
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
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> On Wednesday 01 January 2003 01:19 pm, Michael Havens wrote:
> > You lost me. I can't find bzimage.
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> Ok, I found bzImage. Unfortunately, the new kernel isn't in the load opti=
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> list. I changed the lilo to look as follows:
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> boot=3D/dev/hda
> map=3D/boot/map
> vga=3Dnormal
> default=3Dlinux
> keytable=3D/boot/us.klt
> prompt
> nowarn
> timeout=3D100
> message=3D/boot/message
> menu-scheme=3Dwb:bw:wb:bw
> image=3D/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-------------|
> 	label=3Dlinux~2.4.20                     |
> 	root=3D/dev/hda5                         |
> 	initrd=3D/boot/initrd.img               added
> 	append=3D"quiet devfs=3Dmount"      |
> 	vga=3D788                                  |
> 	read-only--------------------------|
> image=3D/boot/vmlinuz
> 	label=3Dlinux
> 	root=3D/dev/hda5
> 	initrd=3D/boot/initrd.img
> 	append=3D"quiet devfs=3Dmount"
> 	vga=3D788
> 	read-only
> image=3D/boot/vmlinuz
> 	label=3Dlinux-nonfb
> 	root=3D/dev/hda5
> 	initrd=3D/boot/initrd.img
> 	append=3D"devfs=3Dmount"
> 	read-only
> other=3D/dev/fd0
> 	label=3Dfloppy
> 	unsafe
> image=3D/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk
> 	label=3Dold_linux
> 	root=3D/dev/hda5
> 	initrd=3D/boot/initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img
> 	append=3D"quiet devfs=3Dmount"
> 	vga=3D788
> 	read-only
> image=3D/boot/vmlinuz
> 	label=3Dfailsafe
> 	root=3D/dev/hda5
> 	initrd=3D/boot/initrd.img
> 	append=3D"failsafe devfs=3Dnomount"
> 	read-only
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> What did I do wrong?
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> :-)~Mike~(-:
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> ps How are other loaders better than lilo?
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Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
CoBryce Communications

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