On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 19:07, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 08/20/03 18:59, Jamie Krasnoo wrote:
>
> > Hi all. I've been using XFS for a while now without a problem. However I
> > now have a problem and I've caused it. Apparently I didn't pay attention
> > to the fact that a RedHat errata kernel rpm was for 7.3 and not 9.0. The
> > rpm in question was kernel-2.4.20-18.7SGI_XFS_1.2.0.i686.rpm. I
> > installed it via rpm -Uvh which replaced the previous kernel completely
> > and there isn't a trace of it. Now the kernel wont boot up and I get the
> > error saying that there isn't an init found and to pass it through the
> > kernel arguments. I'd reinstall it but there are programs that I worked
> > hard to get them running on RedHat 9.0 and I would rather see if I can
> > either get this kernel running or somehow get the old kernel
> > re-installed. I've managed to boot via the linux rescue and I can seem
> > to get rpm working. It's mounting all the partitions correctly to change
> > the kernel that I have no experience with and really don't want to screw
> > anything up. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> chroot <wherever your / as mounted>
> rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.20-18.7SGI_XFS_1.2.0.i686.rpm.
> edit /etc/lilo.conf to reference the new kernel
> /sbin/lilo
> exit
> reboot
>
I fixed it. I did some more searching around the archives and found a
post by Cliff Wells explaining how to do it. Took me some time to
rebuild the system image but I did it. I had to force the old kernel to
install but it went in and all is fine.
For some reason I found that xfsprogs wasn't installed. Might be a bug
in the 9.0 install disk.
Thanks llama and Cliff for the help.
Jamie
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