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Well, what happens at the Lilo prompt? Does it give you the option to boot into any of the other kernels you have listed? If so, when you select your 2.4.25 option, what happens? More details please, we can't assume and not psychic you know..
That i have no idea for sure, I could ask the datacenter, but they charge 50 bucks to look at it to see what it says. Its on a colo-ed machine, thought maybe I would inquire and see if anyone might know. Thought maybe my lilo.con isn't correct, I guess it is sorry
Okay, can you confirm that the kernel your trying to boot to as your default is linux and the kernel name is vmlinuz-2.4.25-UP_1.1, is there a kernel named that in your /boot directory.
Actually I just did notice something, the system.map and vmlinuz isnt pointing to the right places so tahts why i guess, it should look like this right???
You are correct. The entries in the default section are actually links. But in your case they point to the wrong entries. Is there a graphical boot setup that you can use. This may also change the /usr/src/linux link if you have the kernel source installed. Sometimes there are kernel-version specific directories for libraries that may be changed in the /etc/ld.so.conf file. Using a graphical setup designed for your distro should catch all of these version dependancies. There may be more version dependency issues if you go from a 2.4 default to a 2.6 default.
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