WEll, I don't know the solution to your problem for sure, I have never upgraded a kernel, I always install it beside the old one, so that if something goes wrong, I can still boot the old one.. that is the recommended way of doing things..
if it was me, in your case, I would boot from the Cdrom, and try to upgrade the kernel... using upgrade instead of install.. I have heard that may work.. or you could try copying the boot kernel from your cd into your boot directory on your hard drive and try to get it up that way.. (you'd have to edit your boot manager as well, so that it calls the rigth kernel.) I have heard that that can work as well. but if you just want to retrieve info.. boot from you mandrake CD, then mount the partition that has the data you want on it, it could be hda hdb hdc or hdd and any of the partition numbers, like hda1 or hdb3 it depends on how you originally installed mandrake, if you only have one hard drive, it will most likely be hda,,,so if it was hda1 you would type: mkdir /mnt/drivedir && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/drivedir you can add the fs system type to that as well, but it may not be necessary.. keep trying partitions till you find the one you want.. once its mounted, you can copy data of it to floppy, or another hard disk if you want to.. I have done this many times.. usually when I want data of an old hard drive when I have upgraded. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2 November 2001 3:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] HELP, HElP: emergency recovery needed urgently Hi everyone: I updated kernel 2.4.7 from 2.4.3 in M8. after updating and rebooting system froze while trying to load second stage booting (i guess). it stays here and does do anything else. I checked in MUO. it says to run rescue from CD (i don't have a floopy boot disk). But i am sure what to do after that. Very important files in hard drive that I must not lose. Please, HELP!!! Thanks in advance
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