[olug] Debian: List installed packages

[Phil Brutsche]

Jeff Hinrichs wrote:
> Maybe I am spoiled but starting with the 7.x
> versions of RH it handled the necessary lilo config and when you manually
> edited lilo.conf it was not necessary to run lilo afterwards.  RH somehow
> just knew it was changed and took care of updating the boot info.

RedHat 7.x+ doesn't use LILO; it uses grub.  When you install a kernel 
package it automatically edits /boot/grub/grub.conf, making the new 
kernel available during the boot process.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us