...Just upgraded a 9.1 machine.  All went smoothly until "install
bootloader" time.

I use grub (why would anyone want lilo???).  The script grabed a lot of
old kernels from the /etc/lilo.conf file (a file I never noticed had all
the old cruft in it) and tried to install them.  Of course, this fails
miserably.  Fixed by symlinking to make lilo happy.  This truly sucks,
there is just so much vmlinuz-x.y-nzzzmdk you can type before going nuts
:-)

This seems to me to be a bit of a problem - /boot/grub/menu.lst and
/etc/lilo.conf *can* be horribly out-of-sync.  

Seems to me a reasonable solution is to just install a new lilo.conf
which lacks all the users old stuff (this can't fail); or fall back to
this if lilo barfs trying to incorporate the old stuff.

Anyone have an opinion?

/Kevin
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