> It sounds like you installed the kernel rpm in rescue mode. When you do > that, it grabs the current kernel commandline and attempts to keep all
That may explain what happened. You might know that originally I managed to hose (or I think I did) my /dev/hdb7 install which was cooker, when installing a new DVD/CDRW combo drive last weekend. I rebooted the system (which had been rebooted before, successfully) and the system hung completely at "finding module dependencies" (I think). I couldn't boot /dev/hdb7 so I installed mandrake 9.0 on /dev/hdb6. Then I had to install all the missing things (only had one CD of that) just to get to the point where I could burn CDs. I managed to download all three 9.1 ISOs and burn them. I started to reinstall 9.1, and the box locked up solidly just before the "exit install" step. So, back to square 1. I tried other things too, and that's maybe when I screwed up. ATM, /dev/hdb6 has a 9.0 that's been partially upgraded to cooker. /dev/hdb7 still exists, I just can't boot it, but it'll probably not work since /var has been rebuilt since then (/dev/hda1) so /var/lib/rpm and so forth are way out of sync with respect to what's on /dev/hdb7. So I might as well stick it out with what I have, at least until I have a stable enough cooker from which to burn from. (I mirror usually 2x a day with wget from ftp.sunet.se.) And everything else, I get via urpmi. (James has been helpful I'll admit -- thanks James)... Now ATM I have a working setup - the CD issue seems to have fixed itself, dunno why. But I can only boot in failsafe mode. Otherwise, I get either 1) same issue with respect to the hang at module dependencies or 2) can't find the root filesystem. Once failsafe boots, telinit 3 can bring up the rest of the system, and then I can startx. So - moral - don't reboot :). > Blue skies... Todd Public key: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc > There's a medical term for that: freakishly dorky. --Gash > Oh wait, is today cynical Friday? --NANOG ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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