[newbie] grub problem with new kernel

2001-04-01 Thread Brian
Hi all I just compiled the 2.4.2 kernel, upgrade from 2.2.17. Copied it to a floppy and it booted fine. Added a new entry to grub to point to the new kernel bzImage Renamed the old kernel vmlinuz.orig Copied bzImage to /boot I can now boot to the orig linux but when I try to boot the bzImage I

Re: [newbie] grub problem with new kernel

2001-04-01 Thread AndyMonks
its not just grub. it did this in lilo?

Re: [newbie] grub problem with new kernel

2001-04-01 Thread Brian
Well, have spent the entire day trying to chase down this problem. 5 minutes ago i installed lilo and the new kernel boots just fine. oh well. Wasted days and wasted nights. Thanks to those who responded. Brian On Sunday 01 April 2001 17:39, you wrote: its not just grub. it did this in lilo?

Re: [newbie] GRUB problem.

2001-03-10 Thread bascule
i'm only stabbing in the dark, but i'm guessing that you mean that you want to boot the win2k bootloader that then offers you win2k or win9x, is win2k like other versions of win and picky about being on the 'first' hard drive? if so what about getting grub to map the hard drives from first and