On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 19:59, Fred Nastos wrote:

On December 14, 2003 07:50 pm, Alan Cohen wrote:

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up2date downloaded a new kernel and now (when I want to test it) /sbin/lilo -v -t says little or nothing!

Can you show us the output of $] ls /boot

cd /boot ls -ld * (All files owner=root group=root) -rw-r--r-- 1 512 Oct 8 09:28 boot.0300 -rw-r--r-- 1 512 Oct 8 09:28 boot.0340 -rw-r--r-- 1 5824 Jan 25 2003 boot.b -rw-r--r-- 1 612 Jan 25 2003 chain.b -rw-r--r-- 1 44696 Aug 18 11:34 config-2.4.20-20.9 -rw-r--r-- 1 44696 Dec 1 11:56 config-2.4.20-24.9 -rw-r--r-- 1 44252 Feb 27 2003 config-2.4.20-6 drwxr-xr-x 2 1024 Dec 6 22:10 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 157175 Oct 7 18:46 initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img -rw-rw-r-- 1 156943 Dec 6 22:10 initrd-2.4.20-24.9.img -rw-r--r-- 1 157782 Sep 29 20:55 initrd-2.4.20-6.img -rw-r--r-- 1 479 Sep 29 21:38 kernel.h drwx------ 2 12288 Sep 29 16:51 lost+found -rw------- 1 31744 Oct 8 09:59 map.0301 -rw------- 1 31744 Oct 8 09:59 map.0341 -rw-r--r-- 1 23108 Feb 24 2003 message -rw-r--r-- 1 21282 Feb 24 2003 message.ja lrwxrwxrwx 1 23 Dec 6 22:10 module-info -> module-info-2.4.20-24.9 -rw-r--r-- 1 15438 Aug 18 11:34 module-info-2.4.20-20.9 -rw-r--r-- 1 15438 Dec 1 11:56 module-info-2.4.20-24.9 -rw-r--r-- 1 15436 Feb 27 2003 module-info-2.4.20-6 -rw-r--r-- 1 640 Jan 25 2003 os2_d.b lrwxrwxrwx 1 22 Dec 6 22:36 System.map -> System.map-2.4.20-20.9 -rw-r--r-- 1 520771 Aug 18 11:34 System.map-2.4.20-20.9 -rw-r--r-- 1 520771 Dec 1 11:56 System.map-2.4.20-24.9 -rw-r--r-- 1 518292 Feb 27 2003 System.map-2.4.20-6 -rw-r--r-- 1 3180534 Aug 18 11:34 vmlinux-2.4.20-20.9 -rw-r--r-- 1 3180534 Dec 1 11:56 vmlinux-2.4.20-24.9 -rw-r--r-- 1 3149037 Feb 27 2003 vmlinux-2.4.20-6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 19 Dec 6 22:10 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.4.20-24.9 -rw-r--r-- 1 1117322 Aug 18 11:34 vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 -rw-r--r-- 1 1117198 Dec 1 11:56 vmlinuz-2.4.20-24.9 -rw-r--r-- 1 1117057 Feb 27 2003 vmlinuz-2.4.20-6

and can you tell us what distribution you are using (I assume some form of redhat since you are using up2date).

RedHat 9.0 uname -a Linux tsx3 2.4.20-20.9 #1 Mon Aug 18 11:27:43 EDT 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

It was my understanding that up2date properly installs the kernel, and runs /sbin/lilo for you, and if that fails then it tells you... but I may be mistaken.

up2date did modify lilo.conf but didn't run /sbin/lilo (However it did advise me to do so.) In any case, I would have at least expected /sbin/lilo -t to at least say something like "The boot sector and the map files has NOT been altered"

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/etc/lilo.conf ------------------------------------------------ prompt timeout=50 ##default=linux default=2.4.20-20.9 boot=/dev/md0 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b message=/boot/message linear

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-24.9 ### label=linux label=2.4.20-24.9 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-24.9.img read-only root=/dev/md1

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 label=2.4.20-20.9 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img read-only root=/dev/md1

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