Re: kernel panic

[Charles Menzes <charles@lunarmedia.net>]

how does one make a rescue disk from an existing redhat machine. i have a
linux system at work where i can make a disk. 

cjm

On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mark Blunier wrote:

> 
> Previousl Cloudmaster (sauer@cloudmaster.com):
> 
> > 
> > On Tue, 16 May 2000, Jordan Bettis wrote:
> > > 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
> > [...]
> > 
> > > 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. 
> > [...]
> > 
> > Couldn't you just "chroot /mnt lilo", or use "lilo -r /mnt" (they do the
> > same thing, I think)?
> 
> Couldn't you 
> 1) boot using something like toms boot disk, (or better yet, your rescue disk)
> 2) mount the root file system on /mnt.
> 3) Copy the new kernel to /mnt/ or /mnt/boot depending on your tastes.
> 4) modify your /mnt/etc/lilo.com to have your image point to /mnt/vmlinuz or
> as appropriate.
> 5) run lilo
> 
> Lilo has to have the linux disk mounted for it to find the kernel, and the
> location of the kernel in the /etc/lilo points to where its at when lilo is
> run, not when its booted.
> 
> Mark, not sure of what you are trying to do.
> 
> > 
> > --Danny, asking rhetorical questions...
> > 
> > 
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