Day Brown wrote:
>
> It rather looks like because the Linux kernel is
> more protected, when it is blown, it is blown further.

What the hell does this mean???  I would be *very* surprised
if your kernel was blown (damaged?).  The most likely cause of
your booting problem is some misconfiguration in your filesystem.
Or perhaps a LILO problem.  Neither of these have anything to do
with a blown kernel.

Booting Linux requires three things:  a kernel, a root filesystem
and a booter.  BasicLinux uses a DOS booter (loadlin.exe) and
stores the kernel in a DOS directory.  Your system probably uses
a MBR booter (LILO) and stores the kernel in the Linux filesystem.
In both cases the sequence is this:
(1) booter starts the kernel
(2) kernel does some housekeeping
(3) kernel goes to the root filesystem and starts init
(4) init spawns a bunch of processes and startup scripts

Your problem probably lies in step 4.  Or perhaps in step 1.
But it is hard to imagine anything that would make a good
kernel go bad.

Cheers,
Steven

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