Re: LILO

Marcus Berglund (mabs@netdig.com.au)
Wed, 20 Aug 1997 16:53:10 +1000 (EST)


On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, James Pharaoh wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, James Pharaoh wrote:
>
>> When I try and install LILO running a recent kernel (currently 2.0.31-pre6)
>> it completes the installation, but when I try and boot it only gets as far
>> as "LI"... My previous solution was to boot from an old kernel (pre 2.0) I
>> have on a disk (still mounting the hard drive as root). This is what makes
>> be believe it may be something in the kernel... I am using the latest
>> versino of LILO. I can also get LILO to work by installing it on a DOS
>> partition on the first drive.
>
>I am sorry I have not made this quite clear... What I meant to say is that
>LILO works when *installed* *from* the old kernel. When installed from a
>new kernel it gives the problem mentioned. I know it gives the problem from
>2.0.30 and 2.0.31-pre6. That is why I believed it to be a kernel problem.
>

Are you typeing in 'make zlilo' or copying the compressed kernel to the
root dir _and_ typing 'lilo', or none of the above?

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