You can just use your redhat9 cd 1. Right at startup, you have the option to go into rescue mode. The thing will ask you about your language and i think, keyboard and then basicly go in. It even offers to mount your linux partitions where it finds a linux install. However, for updating a kernel on Redhat9, just install the rpm from Redhat using rpm -ihv kernel*.rpm. It will be added and will become the default kernel for bootup. You can still boot with the old kernel if you like. Regards, Willem On Sun, 9 May 2004, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > I'm a newbie getting ready to install a newer RH9 kernel and I'd like to > have a rescue CD on hand in case I mess up. My IBM R40 laptop (dual boot > WinXP and RH9) has no floppy drive, so I need to make a rescue CD. > > According to RedHat's documentation, once I do manage to get into rescue > mode, the rescue image location "must contain a valid installation tree, and > the installation tree must be for the same version of Red Hat Linux as the > Red Hat Linux CD-ROM #1 from which you booted. If you used a boot CD-ROM or > diskette to start rescue mode, the installation tree must be from the same > tree from which the media was created." > > I installed RH9 off a college's network, so my present version (2.4.20-20.9) > doesn't match CD #1 (2.4.20) in my boxed set. Now I'm going to try an even > newer kernel (2.4.20-31.9 -- which I hope may remedy another problem) which > also won't match the CD #1 or the boot CD that I made. > > So how do I make a rescue CD that matches my version and will really work? > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
