Thank you Civileme for your answer, I made a "clean install" of Mandrake 7.0 yesterday and am starting from the ground up again. I haven't figured out what files to edit to let me have access to my floppy (fd0), or my CD-ROM yet, any help there would be most appreciated!! Vern ----- Original Message ----- From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Fw: Different kernels > On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > Hello Civileme, > > All I got on that last email was a header, no text. > > Please try again! > > I've been having some mail problems on this end, > > (some messages twice, some not at all). > > Vern > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 8:43 PM > > Subject: Re: [expert] Fw: Different kernels > > > > > > > > > > > > 1. Download the appropriate kernel or get it off a distribution disk and use > Kpackage or rpm to install it. > > 2. Open linuxconf and go to Boot Mode->LILO linux configurations and you > should see some lines like this: > > Label Partition kernel > linux /dev/hda6 /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-1mdk > > add > new_linux /dev/hda6* /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk > > *the /dev/hda6 should be the root partition you want to use witrh this > kernel, probably the same as the older one > > Now go to CHANGE default boot configuration and select new_linux as the > default. Depending on the vintage of linuxconf you have this may have > different methods of doing.... > > Then quit activating changes > > If your linuxconf is from 6.x, you might have to run the following > > # lilo > > to activate the changes, or you might not. It will not impede anything if you > do run it, so do it. > > Civileme >
