[NTLUG:Discuss] Weird problem switching to new kernel.

[David Brown]

Did you run the lilo command after making the change?

Dave

Wayne Dahl wrote:

>This is kind of strange, but I'm trying to switch to a newer kernel and
>am getting nowhere.  I don't recall having this trouble before. 
>
>I'm currently running 2.3.20-18.8 and have 2.4.20-19.8 on the machine,
>am trying to get it running and the 18.8 kernel is the one the machine
>keeps using.  I'm using Lilo and my lilo.conf is given below...
>
>prompt
>timeout="50"
>boot="/dev/hda2"
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>message=/boot/message
>linear
>default=linux
>
>image="/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-19.8"
>        label="linux"
>        read-only
>        initrd="/boot/initrd-2.4.20-19.8.img"
>        append="hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/"
>
>other=/dev/hda1
>        optional
>        label=DOS
>
>image="/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.8"
>        label="2.4.18-24.8.0"
>        read-only
>        initrd="/boot/initrd-2.4.20-18.8.img"
>        append="hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/"
>
>Just to be on the safe side, I checked the grub.conf and this is what I
>find there...
>

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>Now, I know I'm not using grub because none of this stuff comes up on
>the initial boot screen...just the stuff from the lilo.conf file.  What
>is going on here and why won't the machine boot into the new kernel?  I
>AM selecting Linux from the menu which shows in the lilo.conf file to be
>the newer kernel.  Is this something I've overlooked?  I've done this
>before (modified the lilo.conf file to boot to a newer kernel) and never
>has this problem before.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Wayne
>
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