FW: Re: RedHat AS 2.1 (kernel panic)

dsr at tao.merseine.nu dsr at tao.merseine.nu
Thu Nov 24 04:31:43 EST 2005


On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 07:46:26PM -0500, Rich Braun wrote:
> 
> Bottom line:  if you get dumped at the GRUB command-line prompt instead of
> seeing a kernel, your menu.lst file is probably blown away.  To boot the
> system, you will either have to remember what commands to type, e.g.
> 
>   kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz
>   initrd (hd0,0)/initrd
>   boot

Or, slightly easier for me, at least:

root (hd0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/md0
initrd /initrd
boot

(What do you mean, you don't RAID your root partition? Have you
seen drive prices lately? Buy in pairs or better, people!)

-dsr-



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