won't boot off iso cd

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 01.08.2005 schrieb Anne Ramey um 17:47:

> I updated to 2.6.12 kernel without updating something else necessary, 
> apparently and have hosed my system.  The real problem is that it won't 
> boot of disk.  We had 2 64 bit systems have the kernel problem and the 
> other is back up and running fine.  The only disk I can get the second 
> system to boot is off a 386 iso, which causes problems when I try and do 
> anything (including chroot /mnt/sysimage) so I can't really rescue the 
> system.  I'd be ok with reinstalling, because I was just doing the 
> initial system set-up anyway, but I can't figure out how to do that 
> without being able to boot off a cd.  The instructions I've found from 
> booting from the network start with--boot from an iso cd (not helpful). 

> Anne

How did you initially install the machine in question? At that time it
booted from your CD but now after a kernel update it does not any
longer? Please provide hardware information, especially about the
controller (IDE / SCSI) and what else might be important.

Alexander


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