29 Mar
2002
29 Mar
'02
22:29
Ted Wager <twager@btinternet.com> [ Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:08:34 +0000]:
In /boot there is vmlinuz and vmlinuz.suse as well as some others.. The default boot is vmlinuz bot could someone tell me the difference between that and vmlinuz.suse which I assume is the failsafe option in the bootup screen ??
At install/update time, the standard kernel is installed twice, once as vmlinuz and once as vmlinuz.suse. The only difference are the different boot options passed via lilo.conf. vmlinuz.suse serves as a safe fall back, should the normal kernel refuse to boot. Either because the standard kernel refuses to work properly or because the user compiled himself a non working kernel. Philipp