[wplug] lilo issues

[Robert E. Coutch]

Did you try:

lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf  

Maybe it's using some other config file.

-Bob


On Friday 30 January 2004 09:07 pm, Ryan W. Frenz wrote:
> I just did a fresh install of Slackware 9.1.  On the initial boot, I
> selected the generic "Linux" from the lilo menu, and I got a kernel
> panic message about not finding the root partition.  Ok, so I reboot and
> add "root=/dev/hda2" to the lilo command, system boots fine.  The funny
> thing is, I then looked in /etc/lilo.conf, and everything is fine:
>
>     image=/boot/vmlinuz
>     root=/dev/hda2
>     label=Linux
>     read-only
>
> So, I did /sbin/lilo to hopefully refresh the config, but I rebooted and
> got the same problem.  So, I changed the label to "slackware" to check,
> rebooted, and it still said "Linux".  For some reason, I can't get lilo
> to reread the config file (which I thought it did on every boot and call
> of /sbin/lilo).  Anyone have an idea what's up here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan
>
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