'Twas brillig, and Maurice Batey at 09/01/13 15:24 did gyre and gimble: > On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:21:06 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: > >> If you are lucky you will have *.old initrds so just edit your grub prompt >> to use initrd.img.old rather than initrd.img (via text mode in grub) > > Where are such initrd.img.old files found? > > (No such files anywhere in its menu.lst.)
They won't be listed in menu.lst. They are just backup files. They are found in /boot if they exist at all. Like I say just try booting as normal but edit which initrd to use via the grub command line. It has worked for some users. Maybe you're lucky too. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/