On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 19:03, Dan Weisenstein wrote: > Thomas Bitschnau wrote: > > >Hi! > > > >I installed a 2.6.5-Kernel via rpm. The entry in the grub.conf file was > >done by the system. > >If I try to start the system with the newly installed kernel, it just > >stops booting after the "Freeing unused kernel memory: 148k > >freed"-message. > >There are no errors like kernel-panic or something. > > > >What shall I do now? > >-- > >Thomas B. > > > >GIVE: Support the helpless victims of computer error. > > > > > > > > > To at least get you back to a running condition, you could boot up with > a rescue disk or self contained linux distro (like knoppix), mount your > partition that has /boot on it, and change the vmlinuz link back to your > old kernel. Don't know if you'll have to change your grub.conf file (in > /boot/grub) or anything else. Maybe someone else can chime in. > > Dan > > -- > Dan Weisenstein > General Manager > Tesoro Electronics > 715 White Spar Road > Prescott, AZ 86303 > 928-771-2646 Typically rpm does not remove a working kernel, or at least not on my systems when just installing a kernel. If this is so with you just reboot with the old kernel. 2.6.5 is a development kernel anyways and will have bugs. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
