[Gllug] Duel booting the saga continues

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On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 07:53:33PM +0100, George F. Saxby wrote:
>  well a pal came down and took a look,decided he did not like the graphical 
> lilo as it masked the problem well he thought so anyway.

Hmmm... 

>  He put an old kernel on a boot floppy pointed it at the / partition lo it 
> works (well apart from loads of failed bit because the poor thing is trying 
> to run 2 different kernels ). The old one is 2.2.16 or some such the new one 
> is 2.4.2boot .
> 	Anyone care to suggest why 2.4 cannot handle what 2.2 can? theories , wild 
> ideas?

Put the 2.4 kernel on the floppy and boot from that - when that doesn't
work, then blame the kernel.

But before that, check your lilo.conf is correct. I'll bet a fair bit it's
bobbins all to do with the kernel version.

Cheers,

Alex.

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