Re: Stupid accidents and dead kernels

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:12:56AM -0000, Scott Justice wrote:
> I had made a hideous accident when rebuilding my kernel. Somehow
> Bootp was added into my kernel so when linux loads it attempt to find a
> bootp server,it can't so it just gives pages of errors,the only way to get
> out is to reboot. I have a boot disk and a rescue disk but I need to find a
> way of either removing bootp or rebuilding the kernel from these any ideas
> apart from kill it completely and re-install.

If I understand correctly, all you need to do is to use the
rescue disk and boot up your computer to the old kernel. Then, you just
re-compile a new kernel without bootp, and lilo it up. That should be
all. Unless your rescue disk also has the new kernel, in which case
the solution might be to use the distribution installation CD or some 1
floppy linux distro to get the same result.

Hth,
José
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José L Gómez Dans PhD student
Radar Communications Group
Department of Electronic Engineering
University of Sheffield UK

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