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From: Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Running "make install" runs lilo on my Athlon but not my Pentium II.
Date: 26 Jan 2001 14:21:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3itn2e9en.fsf@dark.mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200101222202.f0MM24s01811@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <3A713E8F.131C6589@megapathdsl.net>
In-Reply-To: <3A713E8F.131C6589@megapathdsl.net>

Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net> writes:

> Yes.  The script exists on both machines, but I think you have
> nailed the problem.  The working machine is running RedHat 6.2 plus
> a 2.4.0+ kernel.  The other (the Athlon) is running Mandrake 7.2 plus
> a 2.4.0+ kernel.  On the working machine, the installkernel script
> is just a shell script.  While, on the problem machine, the script
> is a PERL script written by chmouel@mandrakesoft.com.  
> So, Chmouel, what gives?  Can you help me debug this?

this installkernel script try to detect what kind of bootloader you
have on your machine (since we ship GRUB and LILO), what the output of
:

/usr/sbin/detectloader

give you (under the mdk machine).

-- 
MandrakeSoft Inc                     http://www.chmouel.org
                      --Chmouel
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      reply	other threads:[~2001-01-26 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-22  8:19 Running "make install" runs lilo on my Athlon but not my Pentium II Miles Lane
2001-01-22 22:02 ` Russell King
2001-01-26  9:08   ` Miles Lane
2001-01-26 13:21     ` Chmouel Boudjnah [this message]

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