After the Upgrade

LILO prompt

After rebooting the system, you should be presented with the standard LILO: prompt. If not, you will need to use the emergency boot floppy, and begin diagnosing what might have gone wrong with the lilo -v operation.

If you got the LILO: prompt, you should now press the [Tab] key on the keyboard, and be presented with the various boot options LILO has to offer. For example:

LILO: [Tab]
linux    linux.old    dos

Typing linux will boot the new 2.0.36-1 kernel you installed. If you run into trouble booting the new kernel, try restarting your system, hitting [Tab] at the LILO: prompt, and typing linux.old. This should allow you to boot your system using your original kernel and allow you to fix any problems. If you have more options after hitting [Tab], you can type the appropriate choice to boot that particular Linux kernel or other operating system.

If you are using a Red Hat Linux 7.x system, you will not see a LILO: prompt. Rather, you will be presented with a graphical screen when your computer boots that will let you select the various entries in your /etc/lilo.conf file.

Making a New Rescue Floppy

If you system will boot with the new kernel, then your upgrade is complete. However, you should now make a new rescue image with this kernel in the case of future emergencies. You should follow the previous instructions, just changing the arguments to mkbootdisk to cover the new version of the kernel.

Log in as root, and insert either a new floppy or your old rescue floppy disk.

# whoami
root
# mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.0.36-1
Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost.
Press [Enter] to continue or [Ctrl]-[C] to abort: 

Once it has finished writing to the floppy, you will now have a rescue floppy disk that can be used with the rescue.img on the Red Hat Linux 5.x or 6.0 CD-ROMs.