On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:28:36 -0400 (EDT), Brett Charbeneau wrote: > Google searches indicate that booting from a rescue CD and rerunning > lilo takes care of the problem, which is does, until the next kernel upgrade.
I use lilo too. If rerunning lilo fixes the problem, then the problem is that lilo did not get run during the kernel upgrade. I noticed that too on my system. When the kernel on my Squeeze system was upgraded from linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 to linux-image-2.6.32-3-686, the kernel image file was installed to /boot, the initial RAM file system was created, and the symlinks were updated. But lilo was not run. I had to manually run lilo. The maintainer scripts for kernel image packages used to always do this, but now, well, not necessarily. There is a configuration file for kernel image packages called /etc/kernel-img.conf. There are some flags in there that need to be set. do_initramfs = yes do_symlinks = yes do_bootloader = yes However, the maintainer scripts do not always honor them anymore. For stock kernels, do_initramfs is ignored. It *always* creates an initial RAM filesystem, because stock kernels require one. do_symlinks seems to still be honored. Mine got updated. do_bootloader doesn't seem to be honored anymore. do_bootloader seems to work only when an initial RAM filesystem is *updated*, not when it is *created*. Also, if grub (version 1 or version 2) is installed (but not in use), update-initramfs may get confused and think that it doesn't need to run lilo. After all, if grub is installed, then you're obviously using it, right? :-| If in doubt, always manually run lilo after a kernel upgrade. If you want to make *sure* that it always gets run, you can create a hook script. An example of this can be found in "Step 10: Customize the Kernel Installation Process" on the following web page: http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/704865932.19815061268845814851.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
