[ale] boot to new kernel on RedHat

Wandered Inn esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
Sun Jan 31 00:17:53 EST 1999


jim wrote:
> 
> I have RedHat 5.2, but I just upgraded the kernel to 2.2.1. My question
> is: How do I get my system to boot the new kernel? I ran make zdisk,
> make zlilo & make zImage. I removed the symlink in /boot and replaced it
> with the new vmlinuz. I removed the symlink for System.Map and replaced
> it with the version left in the root directory. I modified
> /etc/lilo.conf. I ran /sbin/lilo again. After all of this, it still
> boots the old kernel unless I insert a boot disk made with the new
> kernel image. How do I stop this madness?

The compile probably put your new kernel under /vmlinuz.  You'll need to
copy it to the /boot directory.  I'd keep a backup kernel bootable from
lilo though.


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