corupted kernel

[Tom Diehl]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, sly wrote:

> i got it now!
> 
> i booted in rescue mode
> chroot /mnt/sysimage
> mount /mnt/cdrom
> cd /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS
> rpm -ivh --replacepkgs kernel-*.rpm

Down to here you were ok.

> cd /usr/src/linux*
> make menuconfig
> make bzImage
> cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-*

Why did you do this part? It should not be necessary. Just install the
rpm. Just for giggles you might want to try:
rpm -V kernel-*.rpm
That should return nothing. If it returns errors do a man rpm to
see what they mean.

In addition uname -r will tell you the running kernel. That should
match the kernel rpm. Unless of course you really wanted to build
a custom kernel in which case you most likely missed a few steps.

> i don't know if i did the right thing but it works now!

Works is always a good thing. :-)

Tom