[plug] Debian Kernel compile
Cameron Patrick
cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Fri Jan 30 12:29:35 WST 2004
Ryan wrote:
| As an aside to this, does anyone else not trust the manufactured kernel
| .deb post-install script to handle lilo updating?
Indeed. Try this instead:
apt-get --purge remove lilo && apt-get install grub
| I'm happy with lilo, but for those that use Grub, does the resulting
| kernel packages play ball with it, or does one have to do it manually as
| I end up doing it anyway with lilo?
It will update the vmlinuz symlink which is all that Grub requires -
there's no need to reinstall the boot loader every time your kernel
changes with Grub. I haven't noticed any issues with the symlink
updating.
Cameron.
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