Re: kernel panic

[Jonathan Schmitt <other.list@detla.de>]

Hallo

>So, I took the plunge and installed '2.4.18.img' and ran lilo afterwards. 
Lilo 
>gave an error on the stanza I added to lilo as per the debian installer 
>instructions: I think it was the 'initrd=/initrd.img' line. I obviously added 
it 
>to the wrong place.

You should always keep the old kernel in Your bootmenu to prevent such things, 
this is, what the construct with /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz.old is for.
Nevertheless, You could boot the woody installation disk, select "execute a 
shell" from the menu and then 
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt # assuming this is, where Your root partition is
cd /mnt
chroot /mnt
So You should get back to Your old system environment and be able to rerun 
lilo with Your old kernel in the boot menu.
Best regards
   js

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