On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Bob Taylor wrote:
> I brought up my new Alpha PC 164-LX Sunday afternoon and recompiled my
> kernel to include SCSI tape and my Sound Blaster AWE64. The system
> was delivered to me with Red Hat 5.1 installed.
>
> I cp'd the new kernel to /vmlinux.gz and rebooted. Naturally, I have
> forgotten a step or ten as the new kernel will not boot. So ...
>
> 1. Can I recover without re-installing?
Can't you cp the kernel on your boot disk to /vmlinux.gz?
> 2. What steps are required to install a new kernel?
It's exactly what you did except that I would 'cp /vmlinux.gz
/vmlinux-old.gz'.
Uwe
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