Hello,
Pop in the redhat boot disk (any ver) and type
vmlinuz root=/dev/[bootdevice] (where bootdevice
is your root partition). That may allow you to get
booted and logged in so you can fix your config.
You can also get someone to build you a boot disk.
Hope this helps,
Jared
Darque wrote:
>
> AAHHH!! I really broke it this time.
>
> OK, this morning I got all of the kernel rpm's out of the 5.1 updates directory
> on Redhat. I then did rpm -Uvh kernel*.rpm, and everything appeared to update
> without a hitch. Unfortunately, upon rebooting my system, I have an ENDLESS
> scroll of error messages...never even get to a login that you can see for all
> the scroll. I was able to ALT-F2 and login there, but cannot DO anything. No
> PPP support, cannot even load my CD-ROM to try and go back to the old kernel
> that came with the distribution. I am currently having to shell in from
> someone elses windows machine just to send this. Can anyone tell me if there
> is a way out of this mess without a re-install. I guess it was a foolish
> newbie assumption for me to think that considering WHERE the file came from,
> that is was a drop-in replacement for my stock, original, distribution kernel.
>
> Thanks in advance!!
> Jeff
>
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