Re: Linux Old on LILO & Vmlinuz.old in Root

[Kent West]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
Reinstalled Woody several times due to faulty system or setup.  Last time
appeared successful but included Linux Old besides Linux on startup and
Vmlinus.old on root directory.  First time this happened.  Can anyone
explain and is it safe to rm(delete) Vmlinuz.old from root?  This occurred
even though all partitions were initialized before installation.  Using the
7CD Debian set to install.  There was a crashed attempt to install
immediately prior to the last successful install.  Please help.
Leonard Chatagnier
 

This simply means that you had one kernel on the system (perhaps as a 
result of the previous crashed install) and then you installed a new one.

If your current kernel is booting the system fine, then yes, you can 
remove the vmlinuz.old from the root, and the appropriate stanza from 
/etc/lilo.conf, and re-run lilo to get rid of it. There might also be an 
initrd.old in the root. These old files are probably symlinks pointing 
to their originals in /boot.

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Kent
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