LILO troubles

Ugly Joe

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I'm running Slackware 10.2 and I decided to try compiling my own kernel. I was following the instructions from http://www.slackbasics.org/html/kernel.htmlhere</a>. I went through all the steps and nothing appeared to have gone wrong. However, after rebooting, the Lilo menu only shows the old kernel in the list. I've googled around but didn't find anything useful. Figuring I've just done something wrong while building, I changed my lilo.conf entry to match the original one in every field but the label. Like so:

image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda1
label = Linuxa
read-only

image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda1
label = Linux
read-only

After running lilo, I see:

Added Linuxa *
Added Linux

which is exactly what I was seeing before I changed the image to match the first kernel. Even in this situation, though, I only have one entry in the Lilo menu.

Any suggestions on what I should do to get Lilo to list both entries?
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Got it to work. I used liloconfig and added the linux partition twice, saved, modified lilo.conf to use my new kernel, save, lilo, reboot. I have no idea what liloconfig did differently, but it's working now.
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