[lug] LILO and LIes

[Calvin Dodge]

John Starkey wrote:
> 
> > Care to share the contents of /etc/lilo.conf and the /boot directory
> > with us?
> 
> I'd love to. :} Nothing appears to have changed in either of these.
> 
[snip]
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       438378 Jan 30 19:46 initrd-2.4.0
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       285016 Nov 14 20:50 initrd-2.4.0.img
[snip]
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       995573 Jan 30 19:41 vmlinuz-2.4.0
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       925419 Nov 14 20:06 vmlinuz-2.4.0-test10
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Jan 30 19:43 vmnew -> vmlinuz-2.4.0
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Jan 30 19:48 vmnew.img -> initrd-2.4.0.img


> /etc/lilo.conf" 19L, 272C
> 
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=vmnew
> message=/boot/message
> linear
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0
> label=vmnew
> initrd=/boot/vmnew.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda1

Ummm ... so /etc/lilo.conf says the initrd image is /boot/vmnew.img.

But - looking at your boot directory - that points to initrd-2.4.0.img,
which was created on Nov 14.

Perhaps that line should be changed to "initrd=/boot/vmnew", so it
points to your most-recently-created 2.4.0 initrd image?

Calvin

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