I would think that the boot disk must be remade also. I know you must do
this with other operating systems after major upgrades, which is what you
have with new kernel.
Brian Kelsay
-----Original Message-----
From: Yun Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 2:00 PM
Subject: [newbie] kernel upgrade problem
>Hi, there,
>
>I recently installed Mandrake 5.3 with kernel 2.0.36,
>I found out that there is no ppp support compiled in this version of
>kernel, so I decide to upgrade it to 2.2.1.
>
>I've done everything mentioned in upgrade kernel how-to, and finished each
>step without error. however, after I reboot the machine, ( I still use the
>boot disk I created when I installed original Mandrake 5.3 ), it still
>boot to 2.0.36, I tried <TAB> while lilo comes up, my new label
>"linux-new" does not appear at all. I am sure I did everything else right.
>like edit lilo.conf, and copy boot image, and even delete "preferred",
>So what is the problem, does the boot disk need to upgrade too?
>
>Yun
>
>
