[lug] LILO and LIes

[D. Stimits]

John Starkey wrote:
> 
> LILO's lieing to me :}
> 
> I've got two images vmlinuz-2.2.16-22 and vmlinuz-2.4.0
> 
> On running lilo it's telling me that vmlinuz-2.4.0 is present and is the
> default. But it's still booting 2.2.16. And at the boot: prompt <tab> is
> only showing 2.2.16.
> 
> Anyone know what may be the source of this blatant lie :} ?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> John
> 

What other hd's are present? What is in /etc/fstab? It sounds like lilo
is using the wrong lilo.conf, or else your boot loader is looking at the
wrong boot record, such as mixing up mbr and partition boot records. You
may want to forcibly name the conf file:
lilo -v -C /etc/lilo.conf