UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am about to go buy myself a wireless card for my Red Hat laptop. But I am going to have to recompile the kernel to run it in linux, and I heard that the GRUB bootloader gives you troubles when recompiling kernel. So, I booted off the cd to upgrade. I attempted to install LiLo and everything seemed to go alright, but at the end it said, "No kernel dependencies were upgraded, the bootloader was not changed."
So I attempted to do it again, so I redid it and installed some new kernel dependancies and the end result was the same, I attempted a few more times and nothing have worked. Am I missing something?

What problems do Grub give you when you're switching kernels?
To "install" LILO, you should be able to run /sbin/lilo, assuming you have a correct /etc/lilo.conf file...

I think Redhat has a command called "liloconf", or something similar to that... Is should walk you through with a menu...

LivinFree is right.

The lilo would have been installed when you first installed RH. What you need to do now though is to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file. When you have corrected and added the right lines then run /sbin/lilo (or just 'lilo' from the current directory can work sometimes).

You should run the lilo command to make sure that lilo is working fine and the updates have been made correctly.

If you need to find out how to edit the lilo do a search here I know the question has been answered before for a fact as I asked it ages ago.

Thanx, I'll give that a shot...

Ok, that worked to get LiLo going, problem is, It wont recognize any edits to the config, when I edit and run lilo it complains that something is above cylinder 1024. Also, I tried to make grub the bootloader again, and it doesnt seem to want to take over form lilo...?

Due to your hardware (well, actually your BIOS) LILO has to be near the "front" of your disk.
To be more accurate, the /boot partition has to be within the first X gigs of disk...

To try installing Grub, you may have to uninstall LILO first - use the command "/sbin/lilo -u", then try installing Grub...

Keep a boot disk handy!

Yep, always got a bootdisk.

Actually, i fixed the cylinder limit problem by inserting a force lba32

Still a syntax error in there somewhere but I think I can solve that, thanks for the help