PPC: executing lilo gives an error

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Applies to

SuSE Linux PowerPC: Version 7.1

Symptom:

You want to configure the boot loader YaBoot with lilo, but get the error message: 
blueberry:~ # lilo
rm: `/tmp/ppc_lilo/ramdisk' is a directory
ERROR: image = /boot/vmlinux ist not a regular file
While the first line is not important, the second error shows that lilo configuration has failed.

Cause:

The reason is that only kernel 2.4.2 is installed, which is not called vmlinux but vmlinux-2.4, and you have not changed the default name vmlinux in the file /etc/lilo.conf.

Solution:

Edit the file /etc/lilo.conf. The entry image has to point to an existing kernel. In the described case the entry should look like this: 
image = /boot/vmlinux-2.4
Keywords: LILO, BOOT, 7.1, 71, LILOCONF, PPC
Categories: Power PC
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