lilo -v -t says nothing?

[Fred Nastos]

On December 14, 2003 11:27 pm, Alan Cohen wrote:
> (snip)
> -rw-r--r--    1    520771 Aug 18 11:34 System.map-2.4.20-20.9
> -rw-r--r--    1    520771 Dec  1 11:56 System.map-2.4.20-24.9
> -rw-r--r--    1    518292 Feb 27  2003 System.map-2.4.20-6
> -rw-r--r--    1   3180534 Aug 18 11:34 vmlinux-2.4.20-20.9
> -rw-r--r--    1   3180534 Dec  1 11:56 vmlinux-2.4.20-24.9
> -rw-r--r--    1   3149037 Feb 27  2003 vmlinux-2.4.20-6
> lrwxrwxrwx    1        19 Dec  6 22:10 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.4.20-24.9
> -rw-r--r--    1   1117322 Aug 18 11:34 vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9
> -rw-r--r--    1   1117198 Dec  1 11:56 vmlinuz-2.4.20-24.9
> -rw-r--r--    1   1117057 Feb 27  2003 vmlinuz-2.4.20-6

It looks like everything is there.

Try running
	$] lilo -t -v -v
(-v times two gives even more info).

If that doesn't give anything, then what happens if you do the following:
i) create an empty file called test_lilo.cfg
	$] touch test_lilo.cfg
ii) as root, run
	$] lilo -t -C test_lilo.cfg

It should say "Fatal: No images have been defined."

> > It was my understanding that up2date properly installs the kernel, and
> > runs /sbin/lilo for you, and if that fails then it tells you... but I may
> > be mistaken.
>
> up2date did modify lilo.conf but didn't run /sbin/lilo
> (However it did advise me to do so.)

Hmm... to install a new kernel when using lilo, /sbin/lilo must be run, right?  
I've up2dated my kernel about seven times in the past couple of years using 
up2date, and I never had to run /sbin/lilo myself.  I've had to do everything 
by hand if I removed a kernel, but not when downloading.  The kernel was 
downloaded from redhat?

> In any case, I would have at least
> expected  /sbin/lilo -t  to at least say something like
> 	"The boot sector and the map files has NOT been altered"

Yes, I would have expected that also.
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