Re: kernel panic

[John Corey <john@jcorey.org>]

Charles Menzes wrote:
> 
> all-
> the kernel i am currently booting my machine on is having kernel panic
> after i added that last patch :)
> 
> i do not have an alternative kernel to boot from on the hard drive.
> i would like to boot off an alternate kernel from floppy, build a new
> kernel from within /usr/src/linux, and move it into /boot so that I can
> then reboot safely.
> 
> is there a way to make a boot disk from the original red hat cd? once i
> have done so, how should i go about recovering a safe kernel?
> 
> cjm

You should be able to type "linux root=/dev/hda1" from the CD lilo
prompt, substituting your proper root filesystem.  That will boot with
their kernel, but use your filesystem.

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