On 04/07/00 16:22 +0530, Sthitaprajna spewed into the LI bitstream:
>On 4 Jul 00, at 15:02, Muthu Mohan.T wrote:
>
>> /boot directory. When I try $ lilo, it says kernel 2.2.14 not found. After that
>> I don't know what to do, just I restarted it! Alas! While LILO: loading
>> linux.... message came and it was stopped. I don't have boot disk also! Then
>> today I reinstalled the system without formating, I got the old files. please
>> tell me how to upgrade the kernel ? (The files are in RPM format).
>
>If you are installing RPMs, either fresh install or an upgrade,
>always do rpm -Uvh <rpmname>. LILO is stopping becoz it can't find
>the kernel it thinks it should. And since you had the install CDs,
>you could have used the CDs to rescue by boot: rescue, or a live FS
>CD. The SuSE and Slak editions are great.
This is precisely the problem I'm facing now :( So, I'll just boot in
with a rescue disk and see what's up.
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-- Euripides
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