Franki wrote:
> I have a home server here, and I wanted to upgrade it to nine, or upgrade
> the 8.2 kernel to the security update version..
>
> I haven't up till now because for some reason this system will not boot from
> the hdd and needs a floppy.
> (it started out that the bios didn't see the drive properly, so I put in a
> UDMA100 card and it works, but it still won't boot off the drive, and I have
> to use a floppy.)
huh? are you trying to boot and run a Linux partition in a partition
other than what it was installed on?
If so, you must edit the /etc/fstab to show the new partition as root /.
Sounds simple, but you'll need to mount it from another Linux partition
or a floppy Linux like tomsbtrt (which does not support IDE2 and IDE3)
to do that.
> So, my question is thus...
>
> If I install the new kernel.. and all goes well, can I still boot off the
> old boot disk??
No, but you can make a new boot disk:
uname -r
will give you the current kernel name, then:
mkbootdisk <kernel name>
Installing a kernel by following the instructions should give you a new
/etc/lilo.conf stanza for that kernel which must be made default.
> anyone have any ideas on this one???
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