Re: 2.6.14-2-386, missing thermal.ko and initrd

[Peter Teunissen <lists@onemanifest.net>]

On 2-jan-2007, at 11:48, Eddy Parris wrote:

> Hi everyone and happy new year :)
>
> Sometime over the weekend I had a power blip that shut ny debian  
> sarge box down.
> When i booted it this morning i found this lovely message:
>
> Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ...
> FATAL: Error inserting fan (/lib/modules/2.6.14-2-386/kernel/ 
> drivers/acpi/fan.ko): No such device
> FATAL: Error inserting thermal (/lib/modules/2.6.14-2-386/kernel/ 
> drivers/acpi/thermal.ko): No such device
<snip>
> I think the problem is that when i did last update it, it updated  
> the kernel and told me to reboot asap...
> ...which i probly just forgot about so when it has come back up it  
> has not had an updated ram disk with
> these new drivers and cant boot. silly of me i know but its  
> happened and i really need to get this
> back up asap.
<snip>

You could simply select the last kernel version from before the  
update in grub/lilo during startup. If it's just the kernel upgrade,  
it should boot fine after that...

Peter