On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:08 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:16:58 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > watching this thread with interest. > > > > I have several Dell Optiplex 320's that will not boot with grub but will > > boot with lilo and so I have lilo installed on them. > > Is this problem known upstream? ---- very much so https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379201 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219715 ---- > > > Unfortunately though, kernel updates do produce the error above (unable > > to open /boot/boot.b) generated by grubby. Is there any way around > > getting grubby to re-run lilo to execute an update when new kernels are > > installed? > > With LILO, no. LILO must be rewritten with every change in lilo.conf. > GRUB, on the contrary, must not be rewritten after modifying grub.conf, > because it can read the ext2/ext3 fs directly to load its config file. > > If you're interested in where grubby is executed, take a look at > /sbin/new-kernel-pkg which is called by the "kernel" package scriptlets. ---- been there...never could figure out what to change as noted here... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219715#c18 Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
