[lug] LILO and LIes

[rm at mamma.varadinet.de]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:55:47AM -0700, B O'Fallon wrote:
> John Starkey wrote:
> 
> > 1 make menuconfig
> > 2 make dep
> > 3 make
> > 4 make bzImage
> > 5 make modules
> > 6 make modules_install
> > 7 cp'd bzImage and System.map over
> > 8 ln -s everything
> > 9 mkinitrd
> > 10 edit lilo.conf
> > 11 run lilo
> > 12 repeat steps 10-11 (with variations) several times and reboot each tiem
> > 13 hail mary :}
> >
> 
> I've always run make "mrproper" before doing the "make menuconfig, etc" bit to
> insure that the source is properly installed and that the .o files and
> dependencies are stable. I wonder if there's some cross linkage here and that
> the 2.4 kernel has been compiled with 2.2 sources?

Hmm, but even if the kernel was built with the wrong sources 
(which i don't think is likely, the sources live in seperate
trees) that wouldn't explain why LILO doen't show two kernels
during the boot prompt even so it claims that it installs two
images.

 Ralf