[linux-help] Re: Kernel compile

[Bruce Bales <bbales@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Nate.  I was just winding up to go to bed.  Have an early tee time 
tomorrow.  The
'no hyphen' idea looks promising.  I know I had tabs in the previous lilo.conf, 
but it
also had sym links to the kernel.  I'll try it tomorrow.
bruce

Nate Bargmann wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 07:18:08PM -0500, Bruce Bales wrote:
> >
> > > No odd characters.  There were some 0A 09 places, where 09 is the tab
> >
> > character.  Tried taking them out and the blank lines.  Tried it with a 
> > new-line at
> > the end and without.  Still says there is an error near the last line.  
> > bruce
>
> Just looking at my lilo.conf and it seems quite similar to yours.  Mine
> is from a stock Debian 2.2 machine.  Here are the relevant lines:
>
> # Boot up Linux by default.
> #
> default=Linux
>
> image=/vmlinuz
>         label=Linux
>         read-only
> #       restricted
> #       alias=1
>
> image=/vmlinuz.old
>         label=LinuxOLD
>         read-only
>         optional
> #       restricted
> #       alias=2
>
> # If you have another OS on this machine to boot, you can uncomment the
> # following lines, changing the device name on the `other' line to
> # where your other OS' partition is.
> #
> # other=/dev/hda4
> #       label=HURD
> #       restricted
> #       alias=3
>
> Tabs seem to be allowed as my file has them.
>
> Final questions.  Are the kernel binaries named *exactly* as you have
> specified them in lilo.conf?  I'm not sure (as I don't have the mail
> with your lilo.conf where I'm at right now), but it may be that Lilo
> doesn't allow hyphens in the label line.
>
> Also on this system, /vmlinuz is a sym-link to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19 and
> /vmlinuz.old is a sym-link to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21.
>
> I've had good luck with Lilo over the years including back when I
> installed kernels by hand, as you're doing.  I've since graduated to
> Debian a couple years back and its kernel-package handles all the gory
> details like building modules and then puts it all into a tidy .deb
> package file which I then can install using dpkg.  The install script in
> the .deb takes care of running lilo for me as well as updating the
> /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz.old sym-links so I can do other important things,
> like read Linux Today! ;-)
>
> Good Luck!
>
> - Nate >>
>
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