Thank you :) !!!!! That file is awesome!!!! I've already been taking notes on various things for the past week and a half (I have a very bad memory and that makes it very hard for me to remember things, so I need to take notes).
I have been a good boy and made rescue disks - but I didn't need them. I booted into my original kernel, ran lilo, rebooted system and my new kernel would boot! Thank you Jerry. I didn't think it'd be necessary cos I didn't change any file names in /boot, but I was wrong. Only thing that didn't work on reboot was X, but a quick logon as root, ran the Nvidia stuff again, rebooted and all is back to normal. My kernel is safe and sound again - thanks to you guys. :-) I have an issue with getting sound to work, but it's a different issue, so i'll post a new topic on that. W00t! Dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 11 September 2002 12:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Pastern Subject: Re: Linux won't boot -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 September 2002 06:55 am, Jerry Gaiser wrote: > On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 06:44, David Pastern wrote: > > Now I did a silly thing - after doing all the necessary stuff I just > > copied across the System.map and bzImage files to my /boot dir and > > renamed them to current kernel and .map files - overwriting them. I'm > > kicking myself for not being my usually careful self and backing original > > files up. > > Which is where your problem starts (I think). I suspect you're using > lilo and lilo doesn't like it when you change kernels without telling > it. > > Reboot with rescue disk and run lilo with your new kernel and it > *should* work. If you didn't make a rescue disk, use any of the debian install CD's .. Doesn't matter if it is Woody or Potato. At the prompt type: rescue root=/dev/hda2 where hda2 is the ROOT of the file system. Also, here is a quick link to making kernels step by step that I use every time I build a kernel: http://outcast-consultants.redmond.or.us/files/linux.doc gl tatah - -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls\/A GNU-Debian linux user\/ http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. I SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Please Support freedom! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9f1FPZHBxKsta6kMRAm0oAKDbpBo9AqqjtxAJUMIXnSV8hSBhxACgxzBe EXyL3ax5W7PWMFDY+f9REyA= =cbG+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
