Re: Not such a smooth upgrade to 2011... Help?

On 10/24/2011 01:46 AM, David Guntner wrote:
> Jim Beard grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>> Just for grins, you might change to grub as your bootloader and see if
>> that makes a difference, but (never using lilo) I speculate that if you
>> ran lilo after creating the new initrd it should know what it is doing.
>> The install dvd should have an option (maybe under rescue mode) to
>> reinstall the bootloader if you wish to try grub.
>
> *blink*  You need to run Lilo again after running the mkinitrd program?
>
> Ok, not that I'm expecting that to make any difference at this point
> (given the luck I've been having so far), but I'll give it a shot.

Lilo looks for the initrd to boot with by absolute address on the 
disk.  Rebuild the initrd, and the new one will not be written to 
the exact same start address.  Lilo will know nothing about it.

So yes, you have to run Lilo any time you tinker with your boot 
setup.

Grub on the other hand goes looking for the initrd by name and 
general location.  If what it needs is there, it will find it.

Cheers!

jim b.

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