[TriLUG] Kernel Update fails on RH7.2

[S. William Schulz]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 01:35:53PM -0500, Justin Johnson wrote:
> I am attempting to update to the 2.4.9-13 kernel, using Update Manager to
> download and install the
> necessary RPM's. All appears to have gone well, but at the end of the
> install of the RPM, I get a
> error message that says "Test install of lilo fails". I rebooted the
> machine, and it sure enough is
> still booting to the older kernel, and there is no additional entry in my
> lilo list. I did this same thing
> yesterday on  laptop, and it worked flawlessly.

I've done several of the upgrades on 7.2, and only the machines running
grub had the changes done automatically.

The other machines are running off lilo, and I had to manually edit
/etc/lilo.conf to reflect the new kernel (and then run lilo -v).

Best,

S