Re: [SLUG] Re: upgrade to Woody's SILO doesn't work

From: Robert Haeckl (rhaeckl@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 11:08:37 EST


Mario Lombardo wrote:
>
> clip
>
> I'm running now, but this is what I did to get it going:
>
> 1. Installed old Potato 2.2r2 hard disk in SCSI bus under target zero
> 2. Did a STOP-A, set the automatic boot under printenv (setenv) to false
> 3. 'reset' the machine
> 4. at the PROM prompt I typed 'boot disk0'
> 5. When I logged into Linux under root, I mounted the non-bootable disk
> under /mnt/bigdisk
> 6. I ran 'silo -r /mnt/bigdisk' with some other forgotten options to
> force a write of the boot block (see the SILO manual
> http://silo.sourceforge.net/)
> 7. rebooted and all was ok
>

Just curious. Is your old potato kernel, source tree, and /lib/modules
tree still there after the upgrade and is the old kernel still listed in
the silo config file? I haven't done this upgrade yet.

-Robert



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