There is very little concrete information in this message that is of any use in diagnosing your problem. Why do you think you fouled up the apt-utils upgrade? What do these messages say about the kernel modules? Were there any failure messages when you tried to install the 2.4.18 kernel? My advice, when you get a login on your system, is: (a) See if you still have the old 2.4.7 kernel image on your system, and if so then configure LILO to use that for a start. Then you system should be bootable. (b) apt-get --reinstall install kernel-image-2.4.18 (c) Make sure that the kernel image is installed and that /lib/modules/2.4.18 exists and contains the modules you are likely to need (as a minimum; it should contain a lot of others, too). Give us more specific information and I'll try to be more specific in my help. Regards Tom On 0, John Griffiths <john@capmon.com> wrote: > hi, i've just tried to upgrade from a potato box running the 2.4.7 kernel > from the adrian bunk source > > I think we fouled up upgrading apt-utils and didn't realise until we were > upgrading the kernel to 2.4.18 > > on boot lilo starts up but then we get a string of messages about kernel > modules and then it dies (kernel panic). > > i'm making a boot floppy now > > but any advice as to how to fix the problem would be massively appreciated > > (i tried the IRC channel but didn't get much help) > > Thanks > > John > > -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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