No I didn't make a boot disk. I should have though. Anyway I'm looking at
making a rescue boot disk. I tried using the 'tomsrtbt' disk but it uses
Linux ver. 2.037. My original Linux is 2.2. When I try and mount the disk it
complains that the disk has new features and it won't mount it. I've tried
using % mount /dev/sda5 -t ext2 /disk and I get the above error. I've even
tried the mount without the -t option to let the O/S figure out what to do
but it won't mount the disk. I think the boot disk needs to be at least the
Linux version I was running or later.
The question is, what do I do after I get the disk mounted? What repairs can
I do? What files should I copy over...?
Fernando Proietto
A/Manager of Operations
Systems Analyst - Ontario Region IT Division
Environment Canada
MSC - Ontario Region
4905 Dufferin St.
Downsview, Ontario
M3H 5T4
-----Original Message-----
From: Sheldon Lee Wen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 5:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Kernel upgrade to 2.2.16 WRECKED USING UPDATEMGR
On January 3, 2001 10:03 pm, you wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I did a stupid thing. I tried to update the Kernel from 2.2.X to
> 2.2.16 using the Update manager. Little needs to be said -- it didn't
work.
> In fact my system won't boot anymore. I get a System Panic can't mount
root
> fs on 08:05. Anyway I need to back out of the Kernel upgrade. Does update
> manager move the old Kernel and system.map ..etc to backups or does it
> overwrite everything...?
>
> I know I need to run a recovery shell. I'm using 'tomsrtbt ver 2.0.37' I
> can boot with a floppy but I can't seem to mount the root (/) sda5 disk
> where my original Linux is stored. Any help beyond this point would be
> great, especially when I finally get the /boot mounted what do I do to
> repair the flubbed-up Kernel upgrade? Anyone have any answers...?
Did you make a boot disk on install? If you did, boot off of this disk and
then reinstall the 7.2 kernel RPMS.
If not, mount the root file system somewhere else and possibly copy over the
appropriate files by hand.
>
> Fernando Proietto
> Linux 7.1
> PII-350-128M
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