I got to download the kernel image (18MB) but maybe it got
corrupted during the download or there was an error during the installation.
Grub shows 2 kernel editions and I chose the newer one, but the boot process
halts after detecting the hard drive(Hitachi) or the dvd drive(TSST Corp). I
tried moving the drives around in the bios. I just see a command prompt
blinking away. Can I use apt-get to remove the new kernel? Or Synaptic? Or
can I reinstall the downloaded package? The old kernel boots ok and there
are 2 kernels in /boot.
Cavan
On 7/7/07, Barak A. Pearlmutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i assume removing anything would cause a crash right? Can config be
> edited?
You are correct: it would be a bad idea to remove the 2.6.18 kernel
without first installing a different one, and it does no harm to have
multiple old kernels available. So don't try to do that. Editing the
kernel config file would do nothing; that file is actually just
documentation.
Anyway I tried to be a little too clever by half. This should fix the
problem:
apt-get install linux-image{,-2.6,-2.6.21-2}-amd64/etch-backports
This explicitly installs the correct kernel package, instead of trying
to let version dependencies pull in the right one.
--Barak.
