On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:24:03PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > For now, what exactly do I do to recover from this and have a working kernel > on my hard drive? > I have a debian 2.2.r3 and 2.2.r2 CD-ROMS and another computer (obviously) to > work from. But no 'rescue' disks for the defunct PC (different CPU than the > rest).
Use one of the Debian installation CDs to boot the defunct PC and open a shell by pressing alt-f2. From there you can mount the partition where /etc resides, edit /etc/lilo.conf in order to have an entry with a working kernel, run lilo and restart from the hard disk. Good luck! -- Serafim Zanikolas Proud of running http://www.it.teithe.gr/~serzan Debian GNU/Linux
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