[NBLUG/talk] lilo.conf question

Troy Arnold troy at zenux.net
Thu Aug 10 16:09:35 PDT 2006


On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 01:57:04PM -0700, Robert Hayes wrote:
> The dist-upgrade seems to have worked.
> There were some issues that needed to be handled manually midstream by using 
> dpkg --force-all -i packagename
> on several different packages.

Cool!  

> There are 11 packages that did not install properly, but they are none that I 
> use (latex, wvdial, etc.) so I will remove them in time.

I'd take care of those sooner rather than later... If packages aren't
cleanly upgrading or being obsoleted than it indicates that all of your
dependencies aren't completely sorted out.  


> But, I'd just like another pair of eyes to confirm that I'm reading this
> right before I attempt a reboot. 

Yep.  The line "default=Linux" Assures that you are indeed booting from the
first stanza -- the one with "label=Linux"

-t

> # Boot up Linux by default.
> #
> default=Linux
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-xfs
>         label=Linux
>         initrd=/boot/initrd.gz
>         read-only
> #       restricted
> #       alias=1



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