Re: Problems upgrading kernel

[Jim Breton]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 05:29:31PM -0700, Susan LB wrote:
> I copied a lilo.conf from another machine and I think
> the other machine must have been booting off a
> different partition than the one I was upgrading.  (I

Whoops.  ;)

> So now when I try to boot to either kernel I get a
> kernel panic that says it can't boot the root fs.  Can
> anyone help?  All I need to do is modify

Few things you could try, depending on what your actual situation is.

One option: when you see the LILO prompt, pass a "root=" command line
to the kernel like this:

linux root=/dev/hda1

(for example).

Failing that, you could boot off a boot disk (one from any distribution
will do) and open a shell and mount your root partition somewhere else
in the filesystem, fix lilo.conf (don't forget to run lilo when you're
done), and reboot.