[ale] Stupid user tricks when building a new kernel...

[Scott Nolde]

Do you have Tomsrtbt handy?  With this linux distro on a floppy, you
could boot, then fsck it for errors.  Then you'd be able to upgrade or
whatever.

*I think*

- Scott

Eric_Brubakken at aoncons.com wrote:
> 
> Yesterday I attempted to build an new kernel on my pc that is running RH6.1.   I
> have built kernels before, but yesterday I did something wrong during the build.
> After going through the build process and rebooting I am getting these errors:
> 
> Using LILO for booting
> 
> new kernel -
>      Error: kernel is wrong compression
> 
>      - System Halted
> 
> Booting with the Old kernel -
> 
>      Error 0X01 ( seems to be in some type of loop - just keep repeating Error
> 0X01)
> 
> When I try running my boot disk I get these errors -
> 
>      VFS: Cannot open root device 08:32
> 
>      Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 8:32
> 
>      then the system hangs
> 
> If I use the boot/install disk using
> 
>      boot: linux rescue
> 
>      The system will boot me to a bash# prompt.  I am able to find all my files
>      and such, but I can't execute any binary files i.e. - I can't even run vi.
> 
> Since I wasn't getting anywhere with the above, I decieded to try and install
> RH7.0.  I got a few minutes into the install process and the Install program
> informed me that one of the devices was not unmounted cleanly and to reboot my
> old OS.  Isn't that special....
> 
> Not getting anywhere with anything, I then tried to 'upgrade' my RH6.1 with
> RH6.1 to see if this could cure my problem.  Well the upgrade seemed to work,
> but when the system rebooted LIFO starts by then hangs when the third letter of
> LIFO i.e. LIL
> 
> So with my limited experience I am not sure just how to proceed from here.  I
> did back up files during the build process, but I am not sure I got everything
> backed up correctly.  Am I completely hosed or is there something that can be
> done?  Would I be able to upgrade to 7.0 without loosing any of my init scripts
> - firewall, samba and such?
> 
> Thanks for your time
> 
> Eric

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