[LUNI] Kernel panic after installing self built 2.4.26

Eugene Teo eugene.teo at eugeneteo.net
Thu Apr 15 12:13:06 CDT 2004


<quote sender="me at heyjay.com">
> > put in the installation disc, boot it up, press alt+f2, chroot to
> > the root partition, 
> 
> How do I "chroot" to the root directory?
> Do you mean "cd /"?

type mount, identify your root partition
chroot /directory/to/your/root/partition

> > depending on which boot loader u use, change it
> > to the previous kernel vmlinuz (assuming you used .deb).
> 
> I use lilo
> 
> I don't have a vmlinuz, in the /boot directory
> I have a couple of vmlinuz-xxx files

once you chroot it, power your editor, change lilo to reflect to
the previous workable vmlinuz, run lilo, and reboot.

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