what is needed to get rhgb working in lilo

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 01:26:49AM -0600, Bret Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 18:21, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:03:38AM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > > Am Fr, den 21.11.2003 schrieb Aaron Konstam um 01:50:
> > > 
> > > > Probably the rpm command will do the installation. Then in the clause
> > > > of the lilo.conf for the kernel add the line:
> > > > append="rhgb"
> > > 
> > > I'm afraid this is not enough, for he needs the new initscripts as well,
> > > at least rc.sysinit
> > > 
> > > Christoph
> > No he does not. I just added append="rhgb" and it worked.
> > -- 
> 
> 
> Hmm after dinking around with rc.sysinit to test why it was not trying
> to start rhgb, it appears that the test for  -x /usr/bin/rhgb is
> failing.  once the system is up it is there. /usr is not even mounted at
> the point rhgb starts is it?
I see why it works for me and not for others to just put into the
lilo.conf. The machine I started with after installation was using
grub which means that the initrd file had rhgb included. So whoever
said that one has to create a new initrd including rhdb was probably
correct.
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