Re: reinstalling boot blocks

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi all,

Riccardo Mottola wrote:


I want to reinstall safely boot blocks as the installer does, how can 
I do it? best from the CD-ROM


let me summarize the situation:
- I had 6.4 not booting correctly (partition boot size issue)
- I upgraded 6.5, and all works, boots fine
- actually it did not work, certain things make the kernel crash (but 
can't report properly, I can't produce a dmesg, etc.. wifi makes a 
kernel panic)
- after two or three panics the machine does not boot anymore, I did 
run fsck


It looks early crashing, like reverting to the previous situation. I 
wonder if the filesystem may corrupt that way?


I resorted in "upgrading" in place, from 6.5 to 6.5 again, this forced 
reinstall.. and the laptop boots again fine :)


Smart installer! After all, overwriting what was just installed should 
not do big harm.


Riccardo

reinstalling boot blocks

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

I want to reinstall safely boot blocks as the installer does, how can I 
do it? best from the CD-ROM


let me summarize the situation:
- I had 6.4 not booting correctly (partition boot size issue)
- I upgraded 6.5, and all works, boots fine
- actually it did not work, certain things make the kernel crash (but 
can't report properly, I can't produce a dmesg, etc.. wifi makes a 
kernel panic)
- after two or three panics the machine does not boot anymore, I did run 
fsck


It looks early crashing, like reverting to the previous situation. I 
wonder if the filesystem may corrupt that way?


First thing I'd try is to reinstall just the boot loader and stuff, but 
the standard way doesn't work from installer, but I bet a command does it!


As soon as I get the box booting again, I try to report the bad wireless 
kernel crashes.


Thanks,

Riccardo