On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 23:00 -0800, Richard Crawford wrote: > Okay, I'll go crawl back into my hole now. > > Earlier, I'd tried to create a boot floppy before reading the > information that said that the FC3 kernel is too big to fit on a single > floppy. Stupidly, I'd left that floppy in the floppy drive, and > forgotten about it before rebooting the computer, but the BIOS still > boots from the floppy after the CD-ROM drive but before the hard drive. > > So I'm guessing it's time for me to get a brain transplant, and then go > to bed. Sorry for wasting the bandwidth. > > Richard Crawford wrote: > > I ran up2date and installed the newest kernel on my machine, but now I > > am unable to boot my computer at all. I set the newest kernel as the > > default in the bootloader, and rebooted the machine. I got the > > following error before it even got to the GRUB screen: > > > > SYSLINUX 2.11 2004-08-16 Boot failed > > > > On the off chance that this might have been a problem with the new > > kernel, I booted the computer from the FC3 rescue disk, and switched the > > default kernel back to the older one, but that of course did not work. > > > > Any thoughts? This one's got me stumped. > > > -- > Slainte, > Richard S. Crawford (http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K) > Fitness blog: http://www.mossroot.com/02h > The Literate Penguin: http://www.mossroot.com/lp > "You can't trust your judgement if your imagination is > out of focus." --Mark Twain > > > Richard, LOL! It's not anything I haven't done myself. Later, Steve
