On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 10:29 +1300, Barry wrote: > Have just finished reloading lilo, but what caused it to be altered in > the 1st place???? > > My setup... > hda7 Mandrake8.2 kernel 2.4.18-6mdk > hda8 /home (for hda7 only) > hda9 swap > hda11 Mandrake10 (inc /home) kernel 2.6.3-7mdk > > I normally use hda7, its proved very reliable for me and the modem > works. Lilo was set up and has been modified from this ptn to allow me > to experiment on hda11. To allow this to work the 2.6 kernel, > System-map, initrd files were copied to /boot in hda7. All worked fine - > until this morning. > > Last night I booted hda10
you haven't told us what is in hda10? did you mean hda11? > and was looking at various log files and > changing screen resolutions with ctl-alt+/-. Shutdown was normal. > This morning on bootup I got a lilo screen based on the /etc/lilo.conf > file for the Mandrake 10 setup. lilo must have been run somehow when you were doing something last night. In some circumstances lilo will be run - for example if at shutdown you can choose what OS you bring up on the next boot, lilo will run to change the default. frankly grub is IMHO streets ahead for this type of thing, and you can keep a grub boot floppy handy for circumstances where someone or something has aberantly screwed with your setup. > This would not boot my original setup > until I copied the 2.4 kernel and files across and then reconfigured and > ran lilo. > > As I have not had this problem previously and did not run lilo while > running M10 on hda11 I am wondering how lilo got to be altered. > > Any ideas please anyone > > TIA > > Barry > > btw the LTmodem drivers for the 2.4 kernel do nor work with the 2.6 kernel no, but ltmodem will work with the 2.6 kernel if you use the right packages, or compile for the 2.6 kernel. > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
