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`ls /` told me that vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old are still there, can I delete vmlinuz and rename vmlinux.old to vmlinuz and then edit lilo run lilo all without disrupting the machine or will I need to boot of a bootable business card etc?


James

 
> 
> From: Voltage Spike <voltagespike+plug@fastmail.fm>
> Date: 2003/07/16 Wed PM 12:21:05 EDT
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Re: Debian kernel recompile
> 
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 02:14:40PM -0400, elemint@cox.net wrote:
> 
> > I did an apt-get remove <kernel> although in lilo.conf I still have
> > both images listed. Can I remove Linux and then rename LinuxOLD to
> > Linux?
> > 
> > Below is part of my lilo.conf 
> > 
> > image=/vmlinuz
> >         label=Linux
> >         read-only
> > #       restricted
> > #       alias=1
> > 
> > image=/vmlinuz.old
> >         label=LinuxOLD
> >         read-only
> >         optional
> > #       restricted
> > #       alias=2
> 
> What does `ls /` tell you?  You removed the previous /vmlinuz, but did
> that restore /vmlinuz.old to /vmlinuz?  The "image=" line is simply a
> file name, so you need to ensure that the line points to a valid file.
> 
> Also note that if you change lilo.conf by hand, then you must run the
> program `lilo` for the changes to take effect.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> -- 
>                                                            Voltage Spike
>       ,,,
>      (. .)
> --ooO-(_)-Ooo--
> 
> 

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