quoth the Neil Bothwick:
>
> Yes I can. I believe it runs lilo is lilo is present, because you need to
> re-run lilo when installing a new kernel, but I use GRUB so that's not an
> issue. The kernel is copied to vmlinuz-version (or vmlinux-version on
> PPC, don't ask me why) and symlinked to vmlinuz. The previous kernel is
> symlinked to vmlinuz.old. As long as your GRUB menu has entries for these
> two names, you'll always be able to choose between your new and previous
> kernel when booting, without even having to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst.

Great, thanks...

I'll give it a try next time.

-d
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