[Gllug] New kernel compile probs

[will]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Damerell" <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] New kernel compile probs


> [You didn't save the working old kernel? Write that up as a valuable
> object lesson and go grab a copy of Tom's Rescue Disc; boot from that,
> mount your hard disc partitions beneath /mnt, and 'chroot /mnt
> /sbin/lilo'. More generally, 'chroot /mnt /bin/bash' is a valuable
> tool in this sort of situation. The idiots at Red Hat crippled their
> binaries (or libc?) only to work with a 2.2 kernel or later, but Tom's
> now reports the kernel version as 100.x to fool it.]

Thanks.  I re-ran lilo and it worked.  I did save the old kernel, booting as
linux-old so I could fall back to that one.  something that someone else's
post to this list quite some time ago forewarned me to do ;-)

Thanks everybody for the help.

Will.


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