Knoopix and newer kernel

bionicyeti · 01-19-2005, 08:26 PM

This may be a weird question but. I installed knoppix to my hard drive. All that worked out great. Everything is running fine. But I want to upgrade the kernel. I built the new kernel and all that stuff. I installed it and it was successful. I even went as far as to edit lilo. Still boots of the default knoppix kernel. Does Knoppix look somewhere different??? Thanks for any help and sorry if my question or how I worded it sucks.

homey · 01-19-2005, 09:11 PM

Did you re-run lilo after making changes to the lilo.conf ?

RodimusProblem · 01-20-2005, 04:19 AM

In lilo.conf you should see a stanza like this:

Code:

image=/boot/vmlinuz
	label="Linux"
	root=/dev/hda2
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img
	append="ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off nomce quiet"
	read-only

Change /boot/vmlinuz to the newer kernel image. ( /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27 or something )

/boot/vmlinuz is a symlink to the old kernel.

makuyl · 01-20-2005, 10:42 AM

I would suggest leaving the old kernel and the lines for it in lilo just to have something to fall back onto in case you bork your running kernel.
Add lines for the new kernel after checking under /boot the name of wmlinuz. This is what I have at the moment:

Code:

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-060105
        label="Linux-2.6.9"
        append="ramdisk_size=100000 lang=us hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdb=2434,255,63 nomce "
        read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7
        label="Linux-2.6.7"
        append="ramdisk_size=100000 lang=us hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdb=2434,255,63 nomce "
        read-only

bionicyeti · 01-22-2005, 09:06 AM

Homey was on the right track. I didn't run lilo.

I ran lilo and it boots but then hangs. So something is screwed up.

thanks for your help though.