> On Fri, 6 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Disclaimer: it's my fault, I know. > > On a stable (1.1.13) debian box I tried to upgrade the kernel from install > > 2.0.6 to a home-built 2.0.27. The home built kernel is known to work, so > > this > > is not the problem. I built it via kernel-package, so I could install it > > with > > dpkg. After that, I reboot to test the new kernel (ERROR: I know 2.0.27 > > needs a > > newer lilo, like 17-2 (the one I usually install with 2.0.27 - and they > > work!))
^^^^^ THIS IS MY SECOND ERROR IN A ROW > > The reboot came up with a > > > > LILO: Wrong Loader .. Giving up > > > > message, or something like that. > > I realized I missed lilo upgrade, so rebuilt a boot disk and installed > > lilo-17-2 > > Reboot and .. same message. So I looked for lilo dependecies, and it depends > > on mbr. Upgraded also mbr, same message. > > What can I do to make that box boot again? > > I had exactly the same configuration, new kernel version and boot problem. > I upgraded lilo to version 19-2, reran lilo and the new kernel was > bootable. According to /usr/lib/kernel-package/rules the kernel is made > as bzImage instead of zImage if you use make-kpkg. Therefore another > solution could be modifying /usr/lib/kernel-package/rules to make a > zImage. I haven't tried that one. > > I do not use mbr in the boot process and always configure lilo.conf by > hand so that could make the difference. > > In short, lilo 19-2 can and should work with kernel-source 2.0.27 and > kernel-package 3.03. > > Hope this helps narrowing down the problem. I think you're totally right. I figured it out myself this morning (sleeping always help) that lilo-17.2 could not be right, and that I'd have used the one coming with debian 1.2 (which is 19.2, IIRC, like you say). Thank you very much. -- || || ||||||| Marco Frattola Microsoft is not the answer ||`..'|| |||... Piacenza, Italy Microsoft is the question ||| ||| |||'' [EMAIL PROTECTED] "No" is the answer ||| ||| ||| www.enjoy.it/users/~mk/index.html Live Linux, live free! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .