LILO fubar

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Steve Jardine:
> Heya all,

Hi, Steve,

Long time no email.

> This is actually about SILO for a SPARC, but I think that LILO works pretty
> much the same. I was fooling around the other day and changed silo.conf. I typed
> 'silo' (doh) and waxed the boot process. I get the SILO> prompt at boot, but I
> have to manually type the path to the kernel (1/boot/vmlinux-2.4.21) before the
> kernel; will execute. When hitting <tab>, I get no kernel "list" for multiple 
> kernels that are listed in silo.conf. 

Whoops.
 
> Any ideas as to how I can restore the boot process back to auto booting the
> first kernel in the silo.conf list?

I believe you just need to add a "default=<label>" in /etc/silo.conf,
where <label> is the name of the image you want you want. Can you post
your silo.conf file?

Kurt
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