[ale] HOW2 compile bzImage on unbootable drive ?

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 19 21:20:13 EDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 20:28 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> The debacle rages on......
> 
> Lost power this PM in the middle of a kernel recompile and now
> need to enable 'make bzImage' on a drive that at bootup reports:
> 
> invalid compressed format (err=1)
> --System halted.
> 
> Incidentally, Debian-2.4.17 on the way to Sarge via dist-upgrade.
> 
> I can mount said unbootee on another booted drive.
> 
> 'Preciate it,
> Courtney

Can't you just boot the older kernel and retry your recompile?

-Jim P.




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