[Gllug] lilo

[Stig Brautaset]

* tet at accucard.com <tet at accucard.com> spake thus:
> 
> >>That is true. On my system (Debian) the actual kernel image used is accessed
> >>through a link from vmlinuz in / to the /boot directory. Lilo then
> >>references the link. Is this because of convention or technical reasons?
> >
> 
> Back to the subject of the original message, it's just convention to
> use a symbolic link to point to the actual kernel image. In theory,
> it means you just need to update the link, and not modify lilo.conf
> before rerunning lilo. Of course, it makes sense to modify lilo.conf
> anyway to reference both the old and new kernel images to give you a
> backout option in case something goes wrong, so the symlink doesn't
> actually buy you much...

actually, it does. you can put the entry in /etc/lilo.conf for the old
kernel image to reference /vmlinuz.old, so that you only have to
change the two symlinks /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz.old and rerun lilo. 

Regards,
Stig

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