Re: error on LILO after RH 7.1 up2date

["Steven J. Yellin" <yellin SLAC Stanford EDU>]

On Sun, 25 May 2003, Swenson, Chris wrote:

> I just ran up2date on my 7.1 box and elected to only update the kernel and
> xinet.  The Kernel went from 2.4.18.X to 2.4.20.X.  I received an error at
> the finish,  "LILO test failed"  this is not an exact quote.
> 
> This box has been up and running for around 3 years and scheduled to be
> superceded this summer, I have done a lot of patching on it over the years
> and need to keep it up for another 4 to 8 weeks.
> 
> Recently because I was running out of space in the partition I went into the
> /boot section and deleted a lot of really old versions of the kernel.  I
> guess this has screwed some index up.  They are still listed in the boot
> menu.  
> 
> Any ideas on how I clean this up?  I am terrified to reboot it. (Thank
> heaven for my UPS)
> 
    Edit /etc/lilo.conf so that it doesn't have sections that refer to
files you've deleted.  Then run lilo.  "lilo -tv" will test whether 
lilo.conf seems ok without actually installing the boot loader.
    If you have a boot floppy you have an alternative way to boot if your
normal way fails.  If you don't have a boot floppy, type "man mkbootdisk".


-- 
Steven Yellin