I did a stupid thing. I tried to update the Kernel from 2.2.X to 2.2.16 using the Update manager. Little needs to be said -- it didn't work. In fact my system won't boot anymore. I get a System Panic can't mount root fs on 08:05. Anyway I need to back out of the Kernel upgrade. Does update manager move the old Kernel and system.map ..etc to backups or does it overwrite everything...? I know I need to run a recovery shell. I'm using 'tomsrtbt ver 2.0.37' I can boot with a floppy but I can't seem to mount the root (/) sda5 disk where my original Linux is stored. Any help beyond this point would be great, especially when I finally get the /boot mounted what do I do to repair the flubbed-up Kernel upgrade? Anyone have any answers...? Fernando Proietto Linux 7.1 PII-350-128M
