Karolina Lindqvist schrieb:
> I upgraded to the new kernel - and got an unbootable system. It says 
> something 
> in the style of  - kernel too big for lilo, overwriting second order boot

You shouldn't use lilo for several reasons. Once, if you forget to run
'lilo' after an update, your system will be unbootable. Second, grub
works better.

You can have grub on a cd or a floppy and load the kernel from there
(that always seemed to work for me). If a CD is an option, you can even
include a menu.lst file so your kernel will be shown in the menu when
you boot from CD. You can even reinstall grub into the MBR from the grub
menu. See the grub manual (grub-legacy, NOT grub2) on gnu.org for
information on how to create a grub CD or floppy.

BTW, in the 0.8 alpha/beta CD images (until beta1), we had grub as a
bootloader, so you could always boot your kernel in such cases, but
trouble with several BIOSes forced us to go back to isolinux.

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