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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Re: [oclug] PANIC, My Suse 9.1 Update did not work.....

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Re: [oclug] PANIC, My Suse 9.1 Update did not work.....
  • From: "Brenda J. Butler" <bjb [ at ] istop [ dot ] com>
  • Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:35:30 -0500
Charles,

> I made a directory at /mnt on the ramdisk, and mounted the first one. 
> It also has a set of "/" directories the biggest being /dev
> 
> There is a /boot directory which has a vmlinuz file pointing to what 
> looks like a kernel
> 
> I exited the rescue system, and restarted the machine, at the grub 
> prompt I tried giving the kernel command as
> 
> kernel /dev/hda1/boot/vmlinuz


The grub stanza should have an item that says

    root   (hd0,0)

That's what refers to the partition.
So, the kernel line only has to say

    kernel /boot/vmlinuz

Also, if you have an initrd, there should be another line
that says

    initrd   /boot/initrd.img

cheerio,
bjb