[Glastonbury] Bootloader

Nick Palmer nick.palmer2 at ukonline.co.uk
Fri Nov 12 11:04:55 GMT 2004


Ok Cheers

Will have a go :)

Nick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Dickinson" <ian_j_dickinson at yahoo.co.uk>
To: "The Linux User Group of Glastonbury (LUGOG)" 
<glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Glastonbury] Bootloader


> Nick Palmer <nick.palmer at easynet.co.uk> wrote:
>> What would be the best way to edit the options
>> listed on the bootloader, as
>> i have 2 kernel options, but only want to boot the
>> most recent one.
> I *think* (I've moved to Fedora now, and that uses
> grub by default, not lilo) that you edit
> /etc/lilo.conf. IIRC, the format is fairly easy to
> understand, or you can man 5 lilo.conf for chapter &
> verse.
>
> As always, back the file up before you mess with it
> :-)
>
> Also, if you're never going to boot into the old
> kernel, you could rpm -e the old kernel package, which
> I'm fairly sure also removes it from lilo.
>
> Good luck!
> Ian
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