Re: HELP! - My linux server won't boot anymore

2004-05-07 Thread richard lyons
On Friday 07 May 2004 01:51, Joost De Cock wrote: [...] > That's why you have to be in the chroot jail, to make sure your running the > lilo on your disk, and not the lilo on your knoppix cd. > > If you forgot to run lilo, just use knoppix again, check if all is ok in > lilo.conf and punch in the 4

Re: HELP! - My linux server won't boot anymore

2004-05-06 Thread Joost De Cock
On Friday 07 May 2004 01:55, Daniel F Garcia shoved this in my mailbox: [...] > Things are not looking good. > > I ran up KNOPPIX > I unlinked my vmlinuz and initrd.img files and re-linked then to the old > kernel 2.4.25-1-686 > > Rebooted > Still get the same problem > > RAMDISK: Couldn't find val

RE: HELP! - My linux server won't boot anymore

2004-05-06 Thread Daniel F Garcia
> >I had something similar once, (not really, since I screwed up my lilo manually ;) ). > >Here's what I did, get Knoppix (knoppix.org) if you don't already have it. >Boot from the knoppix disk, mount your root filesystem. Chroot into it. Edit your lilo configuration. Get out of the chroot jail, >

Re: HELP! - My linux server won't boot anymore

2004-05-06 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:28:54PM +1000, Daniel F Garcia wrote: > Last night I did an apt-get upgrade apache2 and that upgraded a bunch of > things including the kernel. Now when I try and boot up I get the error > message: > > kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,2) >