Re: [SOLVED] Unbootable after kernel upgrade: Lilo can't load kernel

reopen 505609 reassign 505609 linux-2.6 affects 505609 lilo thanks Stephen Powell wrote: > The real question is, "Why didn't the map installer get run during > the kernel upgrade?" [...] > So is this a bug in the kernel maintainer scripts? Or is it a feature? > I don't know. I'll leave that up

[SOLVED] Unbootable after kernel upgrade: Lilo can't load kernel

This is not a lilo bug. The problem is that lilo's map installer did not get run during the kernel upgrade process. The fact that the user was able to boot his old de-installed kernel is proof of this. The /boot/map file still pointed to the blocks in the file system which formerly contained the