Re: [SLUG] LILO + Debian: why hast thou forsaken me?

From: Eric Jahn (eric@ejahn.net)
Date: Thu Sep 25 2003 - 17:41:29 EDT


My /boot partition is on a different primary partition (/dev/hdb1) than
the root filesystem which is on /dev/hdb3. The
/boot/vmlinux-2.4.18(etc) image is actually on /dev/hdb1 and not a
symlink.

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 16:35, Levi Bard wrote:
> Hmm, that's odd. You actually have a /boot dir, which is part of the root
> partition, and the /boot/vmlinux-whatever image really exists there (and
> isn't a dangling symlink or something)?
>
> Levi
>
> > I did actually try grub and I also got a similar error with that. When
> > I learned that Debian's kernel compilation/installation utilities were
> > integrated closely with LILO, I gave up on grub. I think whatever is
> > making LILO not work is also making grub not work. I like grub, though.
>
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