From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Lamont R. Peterson" Reply-To: lrp@xmission.com To: Stephen Smalley , Christof Rath Subject: Re: installing SELinux on Trustix Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:35:46 -0600 Cc: SELinux@tycho.nsa.gov References: <000801c303a8$4622a310$3700a8c0@wind> <1050508220.1143.21.camel@moss-huskers.epoch.ncsc.mil> In-Reply-To: <1050508220.1143.21.camel@moss-huskers.epoch.ncsc.mil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200304171235.46749.lrp@xmission.com> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Christof: On Wednesday 16 April 2003 09:50 am, Stephen Smalley wrote: > Boot with your old kernel and follow the step-by-step instructions for > installing SELinux, since the quickinstall aborted for you. It sounded like you might not have that old kernel installed still. For just such situations, I always test new kernels using a separate boot selection first, without changing my default. Personally, I like lilo better than grub, so I will use that "terminology". I create a section in my lilo.conf that looks like this: image = /boot/bzImage.test root = /dev/[whatever your root partition is] label = Test read-only append = "[which whatever boot option(s) you need to pass to the kernel]" optional Then, all I have to do move my testing kernel to /boot/bzImage.test and run lilo. I boot it, test it and so on until I am happy with it. Then I rename it bzImage (usually moving the old to bzImage.YYYY-MM-DD, run lilo and I am set! Now, if you can not boot, then I might suggest you go to http://www.gentoo.org/ and get one of the installation iso images. The 1.4_rc? series are just great. You can just download the smallest one. Burn the CD and boot with it. There is a file named INSTALL.TXT (if I am remembering correctly) in the root of the CD that is helpful. This makes a super emergency/recovery/diagnostic CD to use. Keep it handy when you need to fix other people's linux installs, whether or not they are Gentoo. Hope that helps some of you out there. -- Sincerely, Lamont R. Peterson -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.