On Tue Jul 29, 2003 at 01:04:54PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote: > >>Regarding the instructions for the kernel upgrade, they include: > >> > >>'Once you have modified your lilo.conf or menu.lst file, execute "lilo > >>-v" or "sh /boot/grub/install.sh", again depending upon your > >>bootloader.' > >> > >>I have never re-installed grub (over 3 years) after only modifying > >>menu.lst and there have been others who have expressed a reservation > >>about this instruction. My understanding was that it was not > >>necessary > >>(1) but my understanding might be incomplete, so I would appreciate > >>some > >>clarification here. > > > >I don't use grub, so I can't honestly say. If someone knows > >definitively, > >please let me know. > > Grub need not be re-installed when a new kernel is being added to the > system. All you may need to do is modify menu.lst and even that seems > to be unnecessary with Mandrake since the vmlinuz and initrd point to > the latest kernel and initrd via soft links.
Cool. Thanks for the clarification. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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