[luau] Grub Help

[tongaloa at atl.org]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Vince Hoang wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 08:24:44PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
>

Might want to edit Makefile version stuff so that you can install
the new kernel and keep your old one.
Here is default for 2.4.20
VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 4
SUBLEVEL = 20
EXTRAVERSION =
I usually put something on the extra version line to distinguish
various configs of the same kernel with the config saved as
the same 'something'
EXTRAVERSION = 20030318-a

This way I can try a bunch of different configs as I'm always
screwing something up the first few(dozen ;-)

> make clean # if you want to
make sure everything is recompiled
>
> > make dep
> > make bzImage
> > make modules
> > make modules_install
> > make install
>
> reboot # :-)
>
> > GRUB certainly does not suck.
>
> The only thing I really miss from LILO is the -R option, which is
> different from the default/fallback/savedefault options in GRUB.
> If your kernel loads successfully, but is missing a critical
> feature to boot up properly, the fallback option does not help.
>
> -Vince
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