Re: Instability/disk chugging with Thinkpad R50p

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/15/04

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    Date: 15 Dec 2004 21:12:14 GMT

    On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:04:25 -0800, Marty staggered into the Black Sun
    and said:
    > Excellent. I'll give it a try. Sorry for the noob question, but how
    > do you register the updated kernel with Grub properly? I'm only used
    > to LILO from the old days, but this system uses Grub.

    Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add a stanza for the new kernel, like so:

    # title that will appear on GRUB menu screen
    title=Linux 2.4.24
    # GRUB nomenclature for hard disks; hd0 is /dev/hda , hd0,5 is /dev/hda6
    # this is your /boot partition if you have one, not necessarily your /
    # partition
    root (hd0,5)
    # kernel's filename, followed by any options you need
    kernel /boot/2.4.24 hdc=ide-scsi root=/dev/hda6
    # end of stanza

    ...the new stanza you added will show up as an entry in the GRUB menu
    the next time you boot. No need to rerun /sbin/lilo or anything; GRUB
    knows how to read a filesystem. HTH, 

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