Re: Lilo & Descriptor Checksum Error

[Brian]

Elie De Brauwer wrote:

Did you run lilo after you copied the kernel ? Didn't it give any errors ?

I just followed the newbie guide, and to me it looked like lilo was run 
by the dpkg -i process as it asked me several questions about LILO. I 
googled on this problem and found someone else suggesting that LILO must 
be run, so I did lilo -v -v -v and then rebooted. Same problem 
unfortunately.

It is advisable NOT to overwrite your old kernel until you are 100% sure your 
new kernel works, just give it a different name and add a new entry in your 
lilo.conf. 

I guess I'm not completely sure how to do that. Not being familiar with 
lilo.conf I'm not sure what a new entry would look like. From looking at 
yours it seems one can be labeled default and the others can just be 
added as additional images. Is this right? I notice in my /boot 
directory that I have vmlinuz-2.4.18 but that in my lilo.conf I have 
image=/vmlinuz and that's all. That seems to me like the wrong directory 
and the wrong filename. Am I right?

My first guess at your problem is that you simly overwrote your 
old kernel and did not run lilo afterwards. I added an example of my 
lilo.conf i personally don't ever delete any of my old kernels, i just leave 
the there for testing etc etc etc

boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda2
install=/boot/boot-menu.b
map=/boot/map
       prompt
       delay=100
       timeout=100


default=Linux-2.4.20-1
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-fb
       label=LInux-2.4.19-fb
       vga=794
       read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19
       label=Linux-2.4.19
       read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4
       label=Linux-2.4.18
       read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20
       label=Linux-2.4.20
       read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-1
       label=Linux-2.4.20-1
       read-only
hth

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