from the quill of Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on scroll
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> "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
>
> > Damn! I liked this! What is/was the problem with it? OK, how
> about a
> > compromise? How about having %post look for a script, maybe in
>
> do problems with DrakX. Ask pixel :).
Pixel? What was the problem with it? Just so I understand.
> i don't think it's too much ''distribution'' to do this.
Not sure what this means.
> Well we have
> better to do a script to do this :
>
> parse the /etc/lilo.conf script :
>
> get on which device lilo want to install .
>
> check if lilo was installed on the device (if not do anything).
>
> get the default entry.
>
> backup the default entry and point to a old kernel
>
> point the new entry to the new installed kernel.
>
> regenerate lilo.
But why bother? I never touch my lilo.conf, I just fiddle with symlinks
in /boot (mv <current> <old>; ln <new> <current>) and it has never
caused problems for me.
> anyway we can hope with grub to solve this sort of problems.
What problems?
b.
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