ciao,

today i ran some updates for my redhat9 distribution..i suppose the kernel was updated because when i reboot the machine and look at the bootloader, instead of there only being two nice things to choose from (linux/dos) there are now linux.bak, linux, a string of numbers, and dos. ive edited lilo.conf in the /etc dir but to no avail. this has happened each time i've done updates (i've had to install redhat9 perhaps 5 times so far) and i don't know how to remove those extraneous choices from my LILO bootloader.

can anyone help?

thanks.

well the extra choices are appearing because you are selecting the kernel update, and you are on the right track by editing the /etc/lilo.conf file, but you have to make the changes finalized by running /sbin/lilo when your done.

oh, ha ha ha -- that would make much more sense..i couldn't figure out why the lilo.conf file changes wouldn't appear..

thanks a bunch, i'll try that now!!

just to let you know, it worked fine. thank you again for the help. however, i think i may have caused myself an even bigger problem..i will post the question here, and start a new thread because i am desperate. i tried to change my user name in the redhat user manager, i waited and waited and finally decided to cancel the process -- i refreshed the dialogue box, my name appeared as changed, i thought it ok to reboot -- tried to logon, the new name doesn't exist and the old one doesn't work either. anyway to fix this, or am i to reinstall redhat for the 6th time because of my own idiocy?