Re: kernel panic

[Jordan Bettis <jordanb@m-net.arbornet.org>]

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Charles Menzes wrote:

> i am still really in the need of figuring out a way to boot, and get a
> workable kernel into my /boot. using what was suggested before, typing
> "linux root=/dev/hda1" still boots into the new install routine, which is
> not what i would like.
> 
> if anything, i was hoping that i could copy the kernel from a boot disk
> onto my hard drive, then reboot off of this kernel. recompile using my
> existing source files off the hard drive, and build a kernel that won't
> experience kernel panic, and will include the features i had before this
> ill-begotten kernel came along.
> 

If you have another Linux box sitting around, you could drop your hard
drive into it's slave IDE slot (plug?) and then edit your /boot and
/etc/lilo.conf from there, perhaps replacing the troubled vmlinuz with
it's (the working box's) vmlinuz. Then drop it back into the box that
isn't working and see what happens there. Of course, you won't be able to
run lilo on it but if you name the new kernel the same thing you named the
last kernel, lilo shouldn't have any trouble finding it. 

This, of course, requires you to have a another box, but I think just
about everybody has a 486 or something that they can use. 

Hope this helps.

Jordan Bettis
Damn it, Somebody spiked my coffee with some water! --Larry Wall


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