[wplug] Kernel installation woes on SuSE 7.2

[coldfire]

> I just compiled kernel 2.4.9 (with low-latency patches) on my SuSE 7.2
> box.  The build itself went painlessly, but actually booting the kernel
> has been impossible.  I've built kernels before, so I knew how to update
> lilo, and I did remember to run lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf.  I copied the
> bzImage to my /boot directory, everything looks right (to me at least). 
> However, on reboot, lilo does not seem to recognize the new kernel, when
> it gives me the list of bootable kernels, my new one isn't on it.  I
> think some SuSE-specific configuration tool might be overwriting my
> hand-tweaked lilo.conf, or there might be a file that I need to edit
> that I've forgotten to.  I've been through all the SuSE docs and they
> tend to assume that you're installing a kernel from rpm and are using
> their config tools to do it.  Any ideas?

sounds like a familiar problem i've had .. i prefer to install lilo to the
superblock of my root (linux) partition and flag that as bootable.
however, if lilo was ever installed to the MBR, just running 'lilo -b
/dev/hde<n>' won't have any effect even if hde<n> is flagged bootable.
i've never researched it .. i just threw lilo back in the mbr and all
changes took place.


coldie