Many thanks for helping. I tried the first choice but when I come up with the partitioning stage, the partition with Mandrake on it was not mounted. (I mounted one partition as / and the other as linux swap). Now they are not mounted at all. If I mount them, would I lose the data on it? Should I proceed by mounting them at / and linux swap? If I do proceed, should I just manually DESELECT all the packages that are selected in default installation?
As for the second approach, I've come to the stage where in /mnt/mnt I could see the windows partitions. (No linux partition can be seen either here). I couldn't find the lilo.conf file. Should it be in the first partition which is "win_c" in my case? Or it's somewhere else? Please help! I am writing my final year project and I have all my coding there without a backup(I know it's a mistake not backup them). Many thanks, Wei ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux loading... after kernel compilation > On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 1:38 pm, Wei Wang wrote: > > I have Mandrake 9.0 and just recompiled the kernel. The compilation gave > > out some kind of "kernel panic" error. > > After I rebooted the machine, I get: > > > > Linux Loading ......... > > > > with either the "linux" boot or the "custom2419" boot. > > > > It looks like grub or lilo is messed up. I don't have a floppy driver in my > > laptop so can't boot from there. > > > > Actually someone asked this about a year ago but he got this error after > > upgrading the kernel while I was simply > > compiling the kernel. But the answers to that were contradictory: > > One suggestion is to do a MOCK INSTALL and NOT an upgrade with the > > installation CDs. > > The other suggestion is to do an UPDATE and NOT an install. > > > > What should I do? Use the installation CDs to do a MOCK INSTALL or UPGRADE? > > > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Wei > > Installing again without selecting any packages will recover your system > again, and involves minimal effort. > > Another way of recovering is to boot from your install CD and at the first > screen hit F1 then type 'rescue' at the prompt. > You will be presented with a short menu. One of which is to mount your > partitions. > You can then find your hard disc files under /mnt and you can have a go at > repairing your lilo.conf. (Use 'vim-minimal' as an editor) > It is likely that the symlinks for 'initrd' and 'vmlinuz' have become broken > when you compiled your kernel. > > The command > lilo -v -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf > will rewrite lilo to your bootsector > > HTH > derek > > -- > ---------------------------------- > www.jennings.homelinux.net > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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