Dan Hensley grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2001-09-09 at 15:06, David Guntner wrote:
>
> 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.
I didn't see your message until it was too late. :-) But I'll keep it in
mind, should there be a Next Time. (Isn't there *always*? :)
> > > 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.
I'll see what happens on this next go around. I goofed on something
(d'oh!) and am reinstalling again. But while I had it up the last time, I
did the "rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.7-12.3mdk.rpm" to install the new kernel, and
a reboot worked (I may still recompile from the source code once I've got
everything in place). Although I got a message about supermount not being
supported by the kernel. I have no idea what gives at this point,
hopefully it will turn out to be something simple - maybe even a kernel
compile will be able to add it properly. :-) After the compile, should I
do one, I'll see what a mkinitrd command turns up.
--Dave
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