[Techtalk] Kernel compilation problem

Malcolm Tredinnick malcolm at commsecure.com.au
Sun Sep 8 13:20:50 EST 2002


On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:33:48PM +0100, iriXx wrote:
[...]
> > Grub cannot find the image file. Where can I find this file (it is not in /boot/) or anywhere else on my hd, or what dit I do wrong?
> 
> i dont know Grub, as i use lilo...
> 
> but don't you need to run Grub or some command to get it to register the
> new boot entries *before* rebooting?....

No you don't with Grub. That's the beauty of it -- it understands
filesystem formats for a number of operating systems. So you just edit
the config file and go.

Lilo works from a much more naive understanding of the hardware and that
is why you need to rerun it after each reconfig.

Malcolm



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