You must not have heard about Linuxcare's BBC, or the LNX-BBC project. Or Tom's Root Boot. Or even Red Hat's Rescue mode. Here's your chance: http://www.toms.net/rb/ - Fully Recovery system on a Floppy http://www.lnxbbc.org/ - Small CD Image for System Recovery I really have no danger of losing any data -- maybe about 2 minutes of time, but no chance of any other problems. I want to keep my disk space nice and lean -- and it's my box. Since this system in question doesn't rely upon any special modules to get it running even my obsolete boot disks should work without a hitch -- sure I'll get some MODVERSIONS errors, but in a situation I really wouldn't care about sound card support. This case that I was reporting didn't even affect me as I always check my lilo.conf file after anything that affects it -- and I immediately saw the problem and that's why I had to report it. It's a bug. This bug must be eliminated. Any conversations as to specific procedures really are not applicable -- I've been using Linux since the early 1990's -- I know what I can and cannot do. Regards, Chuck -----Original Message----- From: psyche-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:psyche-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of psyche@computerdatasafe.com.au Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 05:32 To: psyche-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: new kernel-2.4.18-17.8.0 RPM damages lilo.conf file > (See Below for Details) > > # rpm -UvhF hwdata-0.48-1.noarch.rpm kernel-2.4.18-17.8.0.i386.rpm \ > kernel-doc-2.4.18-17.8.0.i386.rpm \ > kernel-source-2.4.18-17.8.0.i386.rpm mozilla-1.0.1-26.i386.rpm \ > mozilla-mail-1.0.1-26.i386.rpm mozilla-nspr-1.0.1-26.i386.rpm \ > mozilla-nss-1.0.1-26.i386.rpm mozilla-psm-1.0.1-26.i386.rpm > Upgrading kernels is always a risky business. You _install_ them so you keep the old one in case of accident. Your boot floppies would not work very well as the modules they require are not in place once the rpm --upgrade has removed the old kernel. y -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
