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Re: kernel RPM upgrade, can't login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Fri Nov 15 17:57:50 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "15 Nov 1996 14:11:50 PST."
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 17:34:20 -0500
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Morgan Fletcher writes:
>How can I boot in to fix things? I've got copies of the two floppies that
>come with the CD-ROM, but I can't seem to get to a boot prompt via the boot
>floppy.
I haven't tried this, but it's the only thing I know of to try
at the moment, without the CD. (It's easier with the CD because
there's a full set of tools on the CD; I took advantage of that
last night setting up a machine.)
Boot the boot floppy, choose a hard drive upgrade, let it load the
supp disk, change to VC 2, insert the module with the right arguments,
mkdir /mnt; mount the disk on /mnt, copy your backup copy of the
working kernel into place, run "lilo -r /mnt", umount /mnt, and
reboot without doing any upgrade.
Good luck!
michaelkjohnson
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