On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 13:09, Hamish McBrearty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >am I getting this right - you need to rerun lilo even though you call > >the new kernel exactly the same name? > > > >that makes no sense to me, > > You and me both!! > The thing about boot loaders is that they have no OS to read a file system so that they can identify the file to load on boot for the kernel.
I think lilo does it by identifying the actual physical location of the kernel on the hard-drive writing it to the boot sector (or whatever) when "lilo" is run. It then jumps to that physical "address" on bootup. I suppose that grub has some extra smarts that allows it to read a ext2(/3) file system so it can find files of particular names. > -------------------------------------------------- -- Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, University of Canterbury - Te Whare Waananga o Waitaha Private Bag 4800, Christchurch New Zealand Phone +64-3-364 2987 extn 7895
