Serious problem

[Richard Pyne]

Sorry, if your useable kernel image doesn't exist, you are hosed. It 
doesn't matter if you are using lilo or grub.

--Richard

On Thursday 20 November 2003 09:41 am, Wuss912 wrote:
> That's why grub is better
> Your not hosed if it doesn't get updated
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lunar-bounces at lunar-linux.org
> [mailto:lunar-bounces at lunar-linux.org] On Behalf Of Richard Pyne
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 8:19 AM
> To: lunar at lunar-linux.org
> Subject: Serious problem
>
>
> Lunar update just hosed my machine. Taking the defaults all the way
> with the new kernel version, The update built the new kernel,
> deleted the old kernel, made no updates to lilo.conf and did not
> run lilo.
>
> Automatically deleting a kernel image is just plain BAD! It leaves
> no path for recovery should the new kernel fail to boot or if
> something should happen that lilo is either not updated or not run.
>
> --Richard

-- 
Richard B. Pyne
rpyne at kinfolk.org