screwed custom kernel image, recovering getting bad
Reposting this message. It seems that it dissapeared.
I have the following sid screwed system:
/ in hdb1
/home in hdb2
swap in hdb3
grub floppy is used to boot.
Everything was running great until I made yet another custom kernel image. There is a problem with the scsi that throws the kernel into panic.
make menuconfig related info:
The only change that I made was to eliminate scsi support for harddrive (which I don't know how it got added in the first place), left the one for CD (change with respect to previous kernel image) . I also made some changes, additions and deletions in the usb modules, because I was getting a lot of unresolved usb mess ( i have 6 usb ports and 2 firewire ports), which I had to solve.
Previous kernel image was 2.4.21, same as this new image.
booting:
Now the booting seems to run much more smoothly, until it gets stucked at the scsi loading step, with inmediate panic.
At this point, I can boot using
1. (grub floppy + loading old image 2.4.18) leaves me without a bunch of commands, for example, says that dpkg is not known, etc.
2. knoppix from sept 24 (great by the way).
The problem is: I don't know what exactly I should do to get back to the previous image booting sequence.
I had done mv /lib/modules/2.4.21 as usual. I have changed the names of the directories sevral times, but I still can tell which is which: The old one has some alsa directory inside.
It seems to me that the best option would be to get back to that booting kind, and play more with the kernel images building, until the problem is resolved. The system was too well tuned to redo it (audigy and radeon 9800 running good!), etc.
Any ideas are welcome.
Thanks you all.
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