Re: MILO

[Chris Kloiber <chris_kloiber suth com>]

Bibek Sahu wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> 
> >       I've used both the Milo from gatekeeper and from alphalinux.org on
> > my UDB and noticed something that's not true with the Milo on the RH6.0
> > CD: neither of them could load vmlinuz when it's a symbolic link to the
> > actual kernel.  I know this isn't a major issue, but I'm curious as to why
> > this "feature" was removed.
> 
>         Actually, this 'feature' was never there.  It'd be nice if it were,
> though.
> 
>         Also, if you look at the /etc/milo.conf that the RedHat installer
> drops in, you'll notice that the milo that comes with RH6.0 doesn't use the
> symlink. ;-)  The fact that it puts the symlink in /boot just causes
> confusion, but acomplishes nothing that I found.
> 
> - Bob

I beg to differ. My milo boot command is:

MILO> boot hda3:/boot/vmlinuz root=/boot/hda3

Works every time. Red Hat 6.0. Aboot can't do this trick though.

Chris Kloiber