More strife

[Tim Wunder]

On Monday 03 June 2002 11:46 pm, Keith Antoine wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 June 2002 11:04 am, you wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 10:39:10 +1000 Keith Antoine
> >
> > <kantoine at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> > > Umm, maybe because I am making all those rpms that also get
> > > installed with checkinstall, but now I have recompiled 2.4.18, set
> > > it up in GRUb, yes Grub! rebooted, but no choice for 2.4.18 ? went
> > > and made grub look at 2.4.18 as default kernel still boots up in
> > > 2.4.13, real wierd.
> >
> > Post your grub menu.lst.  Also did you really copy over the kernel you
> > built?
>
> Bin doing recompiles far too long , no I did not copy the kernel over the
> old image.
>
> # /boot/grub/menu.lst - generated by Lizard
> #
>
>
> # options
>
> timeout = 5
> # splashscreen = (hd0,8)/boot/message.col31
>
> default = 1
>
> title  = Linux
> root   = (hd0,8)
> kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.13-modular vga=normal root=/dev/hda15
>
> title  = Linux-2.4.18
> root   = (hd0,8)
> kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 vga=normal root=/dev/hda15
>
> title = Windows
> chainloader = (hd0,0)+1
>
> This also is fine, so where next a reinstall of grub to the mbr ? might try
> that., just cannot see why its ignoring the 2.4.18 boot.

You sure you've edited the correct menu.lst file? This one looks fine to my 
untrained eye. FWIW, the menu.lst file that I use to boot from is on a 
separate, non-mounted, partition from the menu.lst which was installed by 
eW3.1 (originally used by eD2.4).

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