On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 12:37, Sylvain Jodoin wrote: > Thanks everybody for your inputs. I took good notes of it. So, in order to > proceed to the installation of the Nvidia drivers, I first wanted to upgrade > the kernel to 2.4.18-18.8.0. > > Via RHN, I downloaded and installed the rpm. When I type in "rpm -qa kernel" > (or something like that), I see the 3 rpms, i.e., 2.4.18-14, 2.4.18-17.8.0 > and 2.4.18-18.8.0. However, when I boot, I still boot in 2.4.18-14 only. I > must mentioned at this point that I decided not to use GRUB nor LILO but > always boot from a diskette (this is the family pc and I don't want the > others to be bothered by having to chose). So, I did my homeworks and read > on the thing to find out that I have to do another boot diskette to boot > with the latest kernel (well, I think it is what I need to do). I used the > "mkbootdisk 2.4.18-18.8.0" command, made the diskette, and reboot. All this > to get the message "boot failed" (while vmlinuz is running). Any suggestions > or idea of what I did wrong? > Sylvain, The "boot failed" messages usually means that there is a problem with the boot diskette. Try to make another boot diskette and see if you get the same problem. -- Christian Thibodeau <jlcthibo@uumail.gov.bc.ca> ITSD -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
