I got the same thing, but then discovered that lilo had the wrong harddrive as the boot drive. Go in with your boot disk and check the lilo configuration to make sure it is reading the hda1 or what ever your boot partition is, correct it if need be and run /sbin/lilo from a console and see if that doesn't get you a clean boot. I have (I say again) no problems on two computers with the new kernel installation. I don't know what I did wrong: ) Dennis M.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Johnson, David
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 2:03 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake
Just for fun, I decided to see what I had done to my machine. I was running
-26 of the kernel and according the RPM manager, I had installed -34.
When I reboot, I get:
Loading LinuxEBDA too big
and it stops there...
You all were right! :-)
-----Original Message-----
From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:20 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake
With the kernel you have to reboot for it to take effect.
Try this at the command line type in : uname -a
You'll see the current kernel that your using.
Before you do reboot. Make sure you have a bootdisk and you have read the
steps I had to take. Because once you reboot, your not going anywhere until
you install the kernel the correct way.
>From: "Johnson, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake
>Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:56:03 -0500
>
>That's the beauty of Linux. I shouldn't HAVE to reboot...right? :-)
>
>Fortunately, it's only a machine for me to learn the OS on, so I don't have
>a problem wiping and re-installing...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:52 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake
>
>
>
>Ah so you haven't rebooted eh. Go ahead, and reboot then come back to the
>list with your findings. I did the package install and it was fine for a
>few
>
>hours, after i did the reboot, then it took the new kernel and thats when
>the problems started.
>
> >From: "Johnson, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake
> >Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:11:46 -0500
> >
> >Hmm. I did this update some time ago via the package manager without
> >problem. System has not been rebooted since...I don't think that a
>blanket
> >DO NOT DO THIS is appropriate. Of course you must be very careful when
> >doing something as drastic as updating your kernel. Just make sure you
> >have
> >a way out planned before-hand!
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 6:43 AM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake
> >
> >
> >
> >Just a warning to those who like using the Mandrakes Package Manager.
>When
> >your run the check for new security patches and you see the option to
> >update
> >
> >your kernel. DON'T!
> >
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> >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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