Re: LILO Problem - Interactive Boot Selection

[Steve Borho <steve borho myip org>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 02:51:52PM -0400, Jake Colman wrote:
> 
> I just created a new kernel and I want to interactively select whether
> to boot the new kernel or the old kernel.  As I understand it, I should
> either be able to automatically get a prompt where I can type a kernel
> name or, if I press a key, manually force the prompt.  Neither seems to
> work for me.

classic mistake.  There are two parts to lilo.  /sbin/lilo is a linux app
that reads /etc/lilo.conf and writes a boot record to wherever you tell
it.

The LILO: prompt you get when you boot was put there by /sbin/lilo, but is
not the same program.  LILO: has no idea what is in /etc/lilo.conf, it
only knows about the configuration info that /sbin/lilo told it about when
it was installed.

short answer: rerun /sbin/lilo.

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Steve Borho