[Yum] Yum and Aurora Linux

[Jim Wildman]

It uses a boot loader called silo.  Looks and acts very much like grub.
I did have to edit /etc/silo.conf after the upgrade, (yum didn't get the
default kernel set right).  But I always do that anyway.

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Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE                                jim at rossberry.com
http://www.rossberry.com

On 23 Jan 2003, seth vidal wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 11:08, Jim Wildman wrote:
> > A testimony to portability.  I have a Sun UltraSparc 2 on which I run
> > Aurora Linux (RedHat for Sparc).  They released a new version, I pulled
> > the rpms to another box, ran yum-arch, then went to the Sparc box and
> > did a yum upgrade.
> > 
> 
> 
> cool.
> 
> One question - how does aurora linux boot? Does it write a config file
> out for the new kernels that get installed. There is a stub for kernel
> upgrades that is left for other types of bootloaders - if you know how
> the one for aurora linux works and how/where you have to add the entries
> for the kernels I think I could be convinced to put that in.
> 
> -sv
>