On Sun, 2001-09-09 at 15:06, David Guntner wrote: > So, despite my best efforts to reverse my mistake (and thanks again to > those who replied with helpful suggestions - I did learn a bunch of things > from them), it looks like I get to reinstall from scratch again after all. > Dammit. What's annoying about it is that it's sooo bloody time consuming, > and with the 8.1 final release coming up, I hate to have to go through this > so close to the next install. :-) What I ended up doing was copying the kernel from the rescue floppy (actually the MDK8.0 install floppy) onto /boot, then pointing lilo.conf to that kernel. From there I was able to boot up enough to be able to compile 2.4.9 from source (I had previously downloaded it). I compiled Reiserfs into the kernel (as opposed to as a module, which is what the Mandrake kernel RPMs do). From there I was mostly back up and running. Here's a quick synopsis (from memory, so it may not be perfect). 1. Boot the MDK 8.0 installation floppy, hit F1 and boot the "rescue" option. 2. Mount your /boot and /etc partitions (use symbolic links as necessary). 3. Copy the kernel from the floppy onto your HD and update lilo. 4. Reboot--you should be able to at least boot up, but X may or may not start. > One thing, though, which hasn't been adequately explained to me: By what > magic does depmod know *which* of the directories under /lib/modules to > pull from? How does it know which version of the kernel that you're > running? Does anyone know the answer to this mystery? :-) Well, uname -r gives the running kernel version. I assume depmod does something along those lines to figure out what to use. > > > I'm still having the problem with being unable to generate a ramdisk > > using my 2.4.9 kernel (sounds like it's the same problem you have). If > > you find a resolution to that, I'd be very interested in hearing about > > it. I haven't had time to try to track it down. > > You're talking about the initrd.img file, or something else? That's what I'm talking about. I can't generate one from my current kernel that I compiled. It complains about not finding the reiserfs modules, even though I don't have reiserfs compiled as a module. It must be looking for some other file left over from a MDK kernel RPM, but I haven't had time to figure it out yet. Dan
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