RH9 -> Test2 upgrade kernel issue, lilo

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Ah the wonders of IRC.  Dant on freenode.net #fedora was able to help me
out with this, aparently /boot/messages (logos?) was a RedHat thing that
isn't there after the test2 upgrade, commenting out that line from
/etc/lilo.conf allowed me to run 'lilo' with success.

Booting into the Kernel on a Vaio R505TS in the Docking Station still
caused a problem, booting hung on the FireWire line.

Pulling the laptop out of the docking station (which the laptop connects
to from the bottom via a firewire interface) lets me boot into the new
kernel no problem.  Wahoo!

Louis

> Hello all.  Sorry if this has been covered already, so far in my search
> I haven't found anything on it.
>
> I recently upgrade from RH9 to Fedora test2 on my Vaio Laptop (R505TS).
> I upgraded using the boot disk / network driver disk using ISO's over
> NFS on my local network.  I choose upgrade.
>
> When I booted I looked for /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode, but it wasn't
> there.  I realized that my kernel that was booted was my custom RH9
> 2.4.22 kernel, and not a new Fedora kernel.  My previous RH9 was running
> lilo so I looked in /etc/lilo.conf, the following is shown:
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=Linux
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> message=/boot/message
> lba32
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2061.nptl
>         label=2.4.22-1.2061.n
>         read-only
>         append="root=LABEL=/"
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2061.nptl.img
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-lms3
>         label=Linux
>         read-only
>         append="root=/dev/hda5"
>
> other=/dev/hda1
>         optional
>         label=DOS
>
> Now the problem is, when I hit TAB during the boot prompt, I only see
> Linux and DOS listed.  OK, that is fine, I need to run lilo as root.  I
> do that and I get this message:
>
> # lilo
> Fatal: open /boot/message: No such file or directory
>
> If I should be using GRUB how would I switch over to it (note, I haven't
> read the docs on this yet just asking here incase it is a easy deal)
>
> Any help or direction would be appreciated, thanks ...
> (Please cc me on your reply as I'm in the digest mode)
>
> Louis