Aonghus

Thanks Adamw, I took the 'up-1GB' to mean 'upwards from' rather than 'up to'. I'll stick to the kernel I have, so; (although this means I have to do more of the work myself to get my linmodem going ;) ). thanks again, Aonghus (Sorry for the delay in response - I've been away from my computer for a few days)

Just reread my post - I should add that I didn't edit the Lilo.conf myself but that it was autogenerated when I installed the kernel rpm. I think it said that on the lilo file anyway... So, here's the contents of my /boot folder total 4812 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 16 01:31 ./ drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Mar 16 01:31 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Mar 12 23:37 boot.0300 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Mar 16 01:31 config -> config-2.6.8.1-10mdk-i586-up-1GB -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60397 Sep 8 2004 config-2.6.8.1-10mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60295 Sep 8 2004 config-2.6.8.1-10mdk-i586-up-1GB -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5032 Sep 14 2004 diag1.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16796 Sep 14 2004 diag2.img drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 12 23:07 grub/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167695 Mar 15 14:14 initrd-2.6.8.1-10mdk-i586-up-1GB.img -rw------- 1 root root 184326 Mar 15 21:18 initrd-2.6.8.1-10mdk.img lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Mar 15 21:34 initrd.img -> initrd-2.6.8.1-10mdk-i586-up-1GB.img lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Mar 16 01:31 kernel.h -> /boot/kernel.h-2.6.8.1-10mdk-i586-up-1GB -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 537 Mar 12 23:42 kernel.h-2.6.8.1-10mdk-i586-up-1GB -rw------- 1 root root 376832 Mar 15 21:34 map lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Mar 15 21:34 message -> message-graphic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 280792 Mar 15 21:18 message-graphic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116 Mar 15 21:34 message-text lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Mar 12 23:41 System.map -> System.map-2.6.8.1-10mdk-i586-up-1GB -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 547171 Sep 8 2004 System.map-2.6.8.1-10mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 545730 Sep 8 2004 System.map-2.6.8.1-10mdk-i586-up-1GB -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 256 Mar 12 23:37 uk.klt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Mar 15 21:34 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-10mdk-i586-up-1GB -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1309730 Sep 8 2004 vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-10mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1278195 Sep 8 2004 vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-10mdk-i586-up-1GB Hope this means something to you :) As an aside, anyone have an idea why I got the up-1GB kernel automatically in the first place? Thanks, Aonghus [formatted by spinynorman]

Sorry, forgot to attach it - it's there now

Hi, I'm very new to Linux, so I hope you'll bear with me. I have kernel-2.6.8-1.10mdk-up-1GB (in Mandrake 10.1 community) installed on my PC with AMD K6 500Mhz processor and 256MB RAM. It seems that this is an unnecessary variant to use, since I don't have <1GB memory (I presume it refers to RAM?), and it was suggested to me when getting help with installing something else that the standard 2.6.8-1.10mdk kernel would be more appropriate. (The up-1MB kernel was installed by the installation discs automatically - or at least I dont' think I had an option to change it). So, I installed the kernel-2.6.8-1.10mdk rpm, which seemed to work fine, and appended a section to my lilo.conf that was identical to the others, except that it refered to different image and initrd files. Now, when I boot, I have the old kernel as default, plus an option for the new kernel, but when I choose the new one, the computer just reboots. My inittab file has 5 as the boot option, but this must only apply to the old kernel? I've appended the lilo.conf at the end of this message, but every section is identical, so I guess the problem isn't there. Does anyone know how to stop it rebooting? Any help would be greatly appreciated, regards, Aonghus liloconf.txt