[lug] LILO and LIes

[B O'Fallon]

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?

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B. O'Fallon
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