I think I got it fixed. Here is what I did in case someone needs it someday :) - booted F9 Live. Just because I had it around. - opened Dolphin, because it displays the hard drives for the machine - opened a terminal in Dolphin - browse to the root directory of the hard drive - did a pwd in the terminal and found the root of my hard drive was /media/-/ - su - chroot /media/-/ - yum -C list kernel <- did -C because the Fedora repos seem to be messed up again, thus I only used the local cache data - yum -C remove kernel-2.6.31-0.69.rc3.fc12 - this resulted in an error due to some unrelated pooched dependencies. - rpm -e kernel-2.6.31-0.69.rc3.fc12 - this resulted in an error due to some unrelated pooched dependencies - rpm --nodeps -e kernel-2.6.31-0.69.rc3.fc12 - rpm -e kernel-firmware-2.6.31-0.69.rc3.fc12 I will now reboot and see if my system runs. I'll report back in a bit if it does. On 7/16/09, linux guy <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Will chroot work when the target system has a broken kernel ? It > keeps running the old kernel ? > > I tried using rpm with --dbpath so that it used the F11 rpm data. It > wouldn't run because of incompatible rpm versions. > > On 7/16/09, davide <lists4davide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> linux guy <linuxguy123 <at> gmail.com> writes: >> >> >>> I am now running from a Fedora 9 live CD I had laying around. I can >>> see the hard drive and its partitions from the live session. How >>> would I fix the F11 installation so it runs again ? Is it possible to >>> do an rpm -e on the non running F11 partition from the F9 live session >>> ? >> >> You can take control of the installed linux from a live cd with the >> chroot >> command using the command line. >> But you should know what you are doing. >> Basically it is very simple and powerful, but for this reason you can >> also >> break >> your system. >> >> -- >> fedora-list mailing list >> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >> Guidelines: >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines >> > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines