Michael Pobega <pob...@gmail.com> writes: > What I would do is put a live system on a USB flash drive (System Rescue > CD is what I usually use) and mount the unbootable hard drive from > within the live system. At that point you could wget a kernel deb from > http://ftp.uk.debian.org onto your old mounted hard drive. chroot into > your drive's mount point, dpkg -i linux-image-*, and you're done; your > system should now be bootable.
Thanks, I suspected that that would be a reasonable plan, and I've just checked that this doesn't seem to require upgrades to user space. Now one thing about my system is that mounting /usr will be a bit awkward, since it is lvm over several raid 5 devices. Can anyone think of a way to install a kernel .deb without having /usr mounted? If I just unpack it with dpkg-deb, copy the kernel, initrd and modules dir to the right place, and update grub, will that be enough?? Thanks, Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org