Bob Taylor wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Adam C. Powell, IV" writes:
> > Bob Taylor wrote:
> >
> > > 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 ...
> >
> > Er, you did rename the old kernel, right? Let's say you renamed it to
> > oldvmlinux.gz.
> >
> > In MILO, just type:
> > boot <partition>:oldvmlinux.gz root=/dev/<partition>
> >
> > where <partition> is the disk partition where root lives (hda2 for mine).
> >
> > If you didn't rename the old kernel (i.e. you overwrote it with the new
> > one), this will be somewhat more involved... But it is definitely still
> > possible to recover.
>
> Ah ... I cp'd the old kernel to /mvlinux-old.gz and cp'd the new kernel
> to /vmlinux.gz. I understood milo looked for a file name so that's why
> I did this.
>
> My system is using AlphaBIOS so milo > is nowwhere to be seen. I could
> really use some guidance.
>
> I have dd'd milo, lx164, and ramdisk images from the Alpha CD onto seperate
> floppies on my Intel box. I tried booting that way with no luck. I have
> the official boxed set from Red Hat.
Okay, when the BIOS comes up, after it has tested RAM and probed for disks
etc., does it give you an OS selection menu and count down for start? If so,
press F2 to change the configuration, and follow the menus to (I think it's
called) OS selection utility. In that area, either add a new selection with
the same parameters as before but with the old kernel's filename
(vmlinux-old.gz), or else just change the existing selection to point to the
old kernel. (A new selection is probably better, so you can try a bunch of
different configurations and switch easily between new and old if they don't
work.)
I hope this works! (It is odd, though, that the floppies don't boot...
I don't know what might be wrong there.)
Zeen,
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