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On Wednesday 05 March 2003 06:24 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:
> ok i use lilo.
> here is the lilo.conf
>
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=linux
> boot=/dev/hda5
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> message=/boot/message
> lba32
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
>       label=linux.old
>       initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
>       read-only
>       append="hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/ speakup_synth=dectlk"
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-24.8.0
>       label=linux
>       initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-24.8.0.img
>       read-only
>       append="hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/ speakup_synth=dectlk"
>
> the second image is the newer updated kernal.

Did you add the stanza for the new kernel manually, or did the kernel rpm 
scripts do it? I haven't used lilo for a while, but the config looks OK 
to me.

> here is the output from lilo
>
> LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
> 'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman
[snip]
> but at the end, a dirty buffer error appeared, but i think this would
> have gone to standard error because it did not come out in the file
> when i redirected lilo to the file with >  maybe i have done the wrong
> thing here...

It was mainly the error message I wanted to see. ;) Try this:
lilo -v > lilo.out 2>&1 

That will direct stdout and stderr to the file lilo.out

> rpm -q kernel gives
> kernal-2.4.18-14
> kernal-2.4.18-24.8.0
>
> and sorry, i forgot to get the output of 'ls /boot/{vmlinuz*,initrd*}'

That's fine, I just wanted to be sure the files listed in the config file 
existed in /boot/

> anyway can you tell me an easy way to dump the contents of a console to
> a file...?

You mean redirect output as the command above? 

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