I bit the bullet and after backing up the 3 files that I needed from the 
system I rebooted. It worked fine, and I guess that makes sense withthe 
way that silo (sparc linux loader) boots.

Thanks for the advise...

Deepak Saxena wrote:

> On Aug 13 2003, at 20:01, Rob Wultsch was caught saying:
> 
>>I just went through my /boot on my sparc deleating all the kernel that I 
>>made that did not work (btw I made a bunch) and I deleated vmlinuz, 
>>which was probaly not a good thing. My new kernel is vmlinux-1.0, but 
>>isn't there something that needs vmlinuz there?
> 
> 
> DOH! Vmlinuz is the compressed bootimage while vmlinux is usually 
> a raw elf image of the kernel.  Bootloaders generally expect a 
> compressed bootimage, not an elf image. Of course, if you just
> copied arch/sparc/boot/zImage to /boot/vmlinux-1.0, then you should
> be OK as long as your bootloader is pointing to it.
> 
> ~Deepak
> 


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