Made stupid mistake, now no new Fedora kernels work

Alexandre surak at casa.surak.eti.br
Thu Feb 19 17:31:57 UTC 2004


Em Qui, 2004-02-19 às 01:04, Bobby Ryan Newberry escreveu:
> Last week I posted about having trouble getting the 2166 kernel to boot, 
> and having initrd errors and a kernel panic with the new kernel. I tried 
> everyone's suggestions but I never could get it to boot. 2149 is still 
> working by the way. Anyhow, I tried the 2174 kernel and it won't work 
> either, giving me the same problem. I forgot to mention that I tried to 
> install a 2.6 kernel serveral weeks ago, updating my module init tools 
> during the process to 0.9.15-pre4 . This is the only thing I installed 
> during the 2.6 attempt that I can't and haven't rolled back. I've tried 
> to reinstall modutils from rpm but I always have dependecy errors. Does 
> anyone know if this new version of module init tools is the problem, and 
> if so, is there anyway to roll back to the original version that came 
> with Fedora.

My system always has problems to boot with a new kernel. Try looking at
/etc/grub.conf, correct the new entries according to the old ones, and
type a grub-install ou grub when in the shell.

[]s

Alexandre Strube





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