Re: Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-30 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 01/14/2017 05:38 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2017, at 10:05, Richard Owlett wrote: On 1/14/2017 8:45 AM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Hello all, Intro: I have been using LILO for ages. Now running Wheezy 7.11 LTS. As usual and for test purposes on older machines I have two kernel

Re: Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017, at 20:49, Stephen Powell wrote: > > ... > The first two "image" entries define the standard "most recent" and > "next-most recent" kernels and don't need to be messed with, provided > that the standard symbolic link names are being maintained by > "do_symlinks = yes" in

Re: Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017, at 20:49, Stephen Powell wrote: > ... > One such program, memtest86+, provides a stand-alone memory testing > program built to resemble a Linux kernel, so that Linuxboot loaders > think it is a Linux kernel and will load it like one (the entire boot image is > loaded, not

Re: Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017, at 11:38, Stephen Powell wrote: > > If there are special kernels that you want to be able to boot which are > outside > the normal "last two", then you must manually edit /etc/lilo.conf to provide > the capability to boot this kernel, then run lilo. > As an example, here

Re: Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-14 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017, at 10:05, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 1/14/2017 8:45 AM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Intro: I have been using LILO for ages. Now running Wheezy 7.11 > > LTS. As usual and for test purposes on older machines I have two > > kernel flavours: 486 and 686-rt. In

Re: Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/14/2017 8:45 AM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Hello all, Intro: I have been using LILO for ages. Now running Wheezy 7.11 LTS. As usual and for test purposes on older machines I have two kernel flavours: 486 and 686-rt. In LILO boot menu they appear as Linux486 and Linux686 (before renaming they

Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-14 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hello all, Intro: I have been using LILO for ages. Now running Wheezy 7.11 LTS. As usual and for test purposes on older machines I have two kernel flavours: 486 and 686-rt. In LILO boot menu they appear as Linux486 and Linux686 (before renaming they were Linux and LinuxOLD). Both work nice