[ILUG] whoops

From: Ken Guest (balrogzed at domain linuxmail.org)
Date: Thu 07 Oct 1999 - 09:24:45 IST


ok,
I did something unbelievably daft last night.
Compiled a SuSE 5.2 kernel for ip forwarding,
made a backup copy of the existing one and put
the new kernel in place.
And then rebooted.

2 seconds later I realised 'b*&%*&% I forgot to
run lilo!'

So now my machine gets halfway through uncompressing/loading the kernel and then reboots.

Now, the plot gets thicker.
My system is split into 2 partitions so when I log in through an old boot disk all I can see is my /usr partition.
Which not so nicely enough means that I can't grab the configuration files and try to get things back to normal.

Is there anything that I can do about this or should I just nuke the whole thing and install from scratch?

Ken

Ken Guest,
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