RE: question reguarding upgrading kernel

Thanks for your help.  My big confusion was the menu *before* the actual 
elilo label list.  I was trying to find some way to add a menu option, but 
it turns out that initial menu doesn't even matter.  I hit enter at the 
menu on the "Red Hat Linux" option and was then was taken to the ELILO: 
prompt, which my new entry in elilo.conf was available.  That's all I 
needed.

Thanks!
-jeremy

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Delaney, Pam wrote:

> ELIO behaves like a mix of GRUB and LILO.
> You can add a new boot option by editing elilo.conf.
> You can even edit elilo.conf (as with GRUB).
> elilo.conf is somewhere in /boot. I've seen it in a number
> of places but /boot/efi is typical (location is vendor/version
> specific).
> 
> You can just duplicate an existing entry but put your
> new kernel information in place. Make sure you put the new kernel
> parts where they belong and create the appropriate symbolic links.
> Also, use a different label.  (You do not _need_ to have the 
> kernel compressed btw).
> 
> >From the efi shell, you can examine the contents of elilo.conf.
> Use "edit" to edit and I think "type filename" also works.
> 
> Once you are at the ELILO prompt, you can hit <enter> to boot the
> default kernel or enter the label of the kernel you wish to boot.
> 
> Like GRUB, with ELILO you do not need to re-run anything after
> you have written to /boot.  
> 
> As someone who has forgotten this once or twice, do not forget
> to include FAT as a valid FS.....as /boot is on a FAT partition.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	pamela
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeremy Hansen [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 1:42 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: question reguarding upgrading kernel
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I'm new to ia64 and I think like most people who get on this 
> > machine for 
> > the first time as a system admin is that EVERYTHING is different.
> > 
> > My main goal right now is to update the kernel on this 
> > machine and work 
> > with efi to add the proper entry to boot from this new kernel.
> > 
> > This machines was installed with 7.2 itanium.  I've built a 
> > new kernel, 
> > found docs on doing the "make compress", etc, moved it into 
> > the same place 
> > as the existing Red Hat installed kernel.
> > 
> > My last step is to get this thing to boot with the new 
> > kernel.  I don't 
> > understand the efi boot manager at all.  Any quick and dirty 
> > howtos on 
> > adding and boot from a new kernel?  
> > 
> > A side goal of this is to not mess up the machine as people 
> > need this, so 
> > I want to be sure I can boot an old kernel label in this process.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > -jeremy
> > 
> > 
> > 
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