Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
> 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.
Or just boot off the install CD and choose upgrade ...
>
> 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
>
