kernel panic, possibly due to folgers switch of my regular GRUB with new LILO decaffeinated

[Jerry Feldman]

On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 22:38:43 -0400
"Greg Rundlett" <greg at freephile.com> wrote:

> Should I
> a) just change the lilo.conf by removing the 'boot' part of the path
> definition of my kernel and initrd then reboot
> b) 'install' GRUB under my chroot /mnt/sysimage environment after
> booting into rescue mode
> c) rerun the upgrade because the mistake could be with a bad init
> binary d) something else
> 
> (Why on earth I upgraded without making a backup is buried somewhere
> in cement inside my head.)
First, in your rescue system, I would mount the root (and /boot if it is
separate) file system just to make sure it is ok. Check the
<root>/etc/fstab file to make sure the file systems are correctly
listed.
Then check to make sure the entries in the lilo.conf and
/boot/grub/grub.menulst are correct. If not, make the appropriate
corrections. If you are using grub, make sure that the appropriate stage
files are in /boot/grub.

The grub info pages have some pretty decent documentation on activating
grub. You can also use grub to make a boot floppy. 

Generally, when I upgrade my system, I create a new root file system in
another partition so that if I screw it up, or if there is a problem, I
can easily boot back into my old system. Once I am confident that the
new system is ok, I copy the new root file system to the old root file
system (usually while running a standalone or rescue system). This way I
always have at least 1 known good root file system. 
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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