Re: kernel panic
did you try woody boot-floppies? I've had trouble installing with them, but they seem to boot OK...
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 07:10:50PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 October 2001 13:20, Glen S Mehn spewed forth:
> > Tom:
> >
> > did you use make-kpkg to install your kernel?
> >
> > you should be able to fix it, if you know your way around kernels (and
> > assuming you didn't overwrite your old kernel!) by booting with the rescue
> > disk-- the rescue.bin and root.bin that you used to install.
> >
> > boot, at the boot prompt type 'linux rescue' (no quotes, and not this
> > parentheticalnote)
> >
> > rm /vmlinuz
> > ln -s /voot/vmlinuz-whatever-your-old-linux-kernel-is /vmlinuz
> > check your /etc/lilo.conf
> > run lilo
> > pray
>
> LILO wouldn't install from the rescue.bin/root.bin disks as the libgc was
> different from potato (floppy) to woody (hard-drive).
--
Glen S Mehn
Lead Systems Administrator SquareTrade, Inc
glen@squaretrade.com Building Trust in Transactions (sm)
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