Re: I've done it! Wanted SMP now I get Kernel Panic!

2001-10-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Mark Lanett wrote: > When I have recompiled and installed my kernel, I get a new "LinuxOLD" entry > in Lilo automatically. I guess the dpkg install step does it. I'm running on the assumption that most people grab the official tarballs off kernel.org, which sounds like is the

Re: I've done it! Wanted SMP now I get Kernel Panic!

2001-10-17 Thread Mark Lanett
> Did you back up your old kernel someplace that lilo is aware of? Do you > have a Debian rescue disk that is SCSI aware? When I have recompiled and installed my kernel, I get a new "LinuxOLD" entry in Lilo automatically. I guess the dpkg install step does it. ~mark

Re: I've done it! Wanted SMP now I get Kernel Panic!

2001-10-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Alexander Wallace wrote: > Like a good newbie that I am, I did not do a backup on purpose, unless > there is one done automatically I don't think I have one :( Nope. Not done by default. Here's an example lilo.conf to work with, when you install a new kernel, do this: mv /

Re: I've done it! Wanted SMP now I get Kernel Panic!

2001-10-17 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thanks... I did get 2.4.12, sorry for the confusion there... Like a good newbie that I am, I did not do a backup on purpose, unless there is one done automatically I don't think I have one :( I thought I compiled what I needed but evidently I did not so All I have is a debian cd that I can b

Re: I've done it! Wanted SMP now I get Kernel Panic!

2001-10-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Alexander Wallace wrote: > So I went and got the latest stable kernel (1.4.12) at www.kernel.org and Latest is 2.4.12, not 1.4.12. > Then when I rebooted I got: a lot of errors, it looks like the scsi > drivers didn't load and I get a kernel panic becouse root can't be > mou