I'm using Mandrake 7.2, which came with the 2.2.17 kernel.

I ran the Updates program and found that there was an available 
kernel update. Unfortunately, I told it to install said update. Now 
my system won't boot.

I see in the list archive that someone has indicated that there's a 
page describing how to properly perform the update, somewhere on the 
Mandrake website. I don't even know where to look.

Can anyone point me to a set of directions describing how to recover 
from this? Any and all help is appreciated. I would very much not 
like to have to reformat and start over.

Details of my system:
- Custom system, 900 MHz Athlon with 1536 MB of RAM.
- 30 GB hard drive with a single ReiserFS partition (plus a separate, 
nonfunctional Windows98 installation - it doesn't like having that 
much RAM).
- Grub.
- Floppy drive, CD-ROM drive, network connection (with gateway 
[separate machine] to broadband Internet access).
- Mandrake 7.2 CD set (and I've figured out how to get into Rescue 
mode from the bootable CD)

Chris Buxton

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