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4. After the Upgrade

4.1 LILO prompt

After rebooting the system, you should be presented with the standard LILO: prompt. If not, you will need to use the emergency boot floppy, and begin diagnosing what might have gone wrong with the lilo -v operation.

If you got the LILO: prompt, you should now press the Tab key on the keyboard, and be presented with the various boot options LILO has to offer. On my system, I got the following

              LILO: <tab>
              linux    linux.old    dos
            

which I then typed linux which booted the 2.0.36-1 kernel I installed. You will need to type your appropriate choice, and you should get the normal boot script starting up.

4.2 Making a new rescue floppy

If all has gone well, you should have a system with an upgraded kernel. You should now make a new rescue image with this kernel in the case of future emergencies. You should follow the previous instructions, just changing the arguments to mkbootdisk to cover the new version of the kernel.

Login as root, and insert either a new floppy or your old rescue floppy disk (your preference... personally I use the same floppy for all my rescue images.)


  # whoami
  root
  # mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.0.36-1
  Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost.
  Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort: 

            

Once it has finished writing to the floppy, you will now have a rescue floppy disk that can be used with the rescue.img on the 5.x and 6.0 cdrom's.


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