Someone has given me a system to configure their printer on it. yababa root # uname -a Linux yababa.io.spectraitc.com 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 #3 Tue Feb 25 14:40:41 CST 2003 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux yababa root #
When I connect the printer, I get Feb 26 02:15:57 yababa /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 4e8/326c/100 I figured, the USB support for printer wan not enabled in the kernel. Found it to be the case. So I rebuilt the kernel. Now I want to add the new kernel to the existing boot menu and I am baffeled by some findings. The boot menu says it is LILO, so I went to /etc/lilo.conf This is how it looks ---------------- # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/lilo/files/lilo.conf,v 1.3 2002/09/30 00:55:18 woodchip Exp $ # Author: Ultanium # Start LILO global section menu-scheme=Wb boot = /dev/hda prompt #boot=/devices/discs/disc0/disc map = /boot/System.map #compact # faster, but won't work on all systems. lba32 #if lba32 do not work, use linear #linear #if you always want to see the prompt with a 15 second timeout: timeout=90 delay = 50 vga = normal # Normal VGA console # End LILO global section # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /boot/bzImage root = /dev/hda7 label = Gentoo read-only # read-only for checking image = /boot/bzImage.OLD root = /dev/hda7 label = Gentoo_Old read-only # read-only for checking image = /boot/bzImageAR root = /dev/hda7 label = Gentoo_new read-only # read-only for checking # # Linux bootable partition config ends ---------------- I added the section ----------- image = /boot/bzImageAR root = /dev/hda7 label = Gentoo_new read-only # read-only for checking ----------- This is what I don't understand ------------------ yababa root # ls -l /boot/ total 1272 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 483904 Feb 26 04:56 System.map-2.4.19r10AR lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jan 12 2003 boot -> . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 814688 Feb 26 04:40 bzImageAR yababa root # --------------------- boot points to itself. Before I copied the System.map-2.4.19r10AR and bzImageAR, there was nothing in there. How does the system boot? ? ? Of course if I run /sbin/lilo, the system complains yababa root # /sbin/lilo Fatal: open /boot/bzImage: No such file or directory yababa root # Any pointers will be greatly appreciated ! Regards Pete -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list