Re: Recovery from bad kernel
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:13:35PM +0100, Aidan Delaney wrote:
> Let's suppose (for a moment) that I'm an itiot who had a perfectly good system
> but recompiled the kernel and booted into it.
> Suppose also that the palo.conf file points to "2\vmlinux-2.4.18" and a
> recovery kernel at /boot/vmlinux-2.4.17-r39 (or somthing).
>
> If the 2.4.18 kernel fails halfway through boot, how do I get palo to revert
> to using the recovery kernel?
you need to `interact with isl' (maybe specify `ipl' on the boot line,
depends what kind of firmware you have), then edit the command line using
the fancy editor paul designed, and specify 2\vmlinux-2.4.17-r39 instead.
I think ;-)
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