[Linux] oops! kernel panic'd

[Carlos M. Echenique]

I believe that the install CD can be booted to an emergency shell. I'm not
sure what the command is under RH, but in SuSE you type manual at the lilo
prompt and then (after you auto load some necessary kernel modules) you load
the Rescue System from the CD. You can then lilo till your fingers fall off.

-----Original Message-----
From: Warren Pollans [mailto:cottage1@gate.net]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 1980 3:08 PM
To: linux@flux.org
Subject: [Linux] oops! kernel panic'd


Hello again,

I attempted to allow linux to see my extra 128M of memory by adding an
append statement to linux.conf indicating that I had 196M.  When I
rebooted, the kernel panic'd and the boot just stopped at that point.
By the way, memory test at startup indicated that there was 196608K - a
little less than 192M - not the 196M I have.  I had been warned about
that ...

What I thought was my boot disk is the RH installation floppy.  I can't
seem tobreak out of the install program.  Neither can I interrupt the
boot process.

OK!  Am I totally hosed, or is there some way to boot linux,  from a
floppy or from the HD into some sort of boot or single-user mode, so
that I can change linux.conf?

As you might be able to tell, I've been able to get by with just adding
the packages I needed, and doing whatever I wanted to without having to
know very much about linux.  I believe my education is about to begin
8^).

I have access to other linux boxes at work.

I still appreciate the advice I had gotten.  It was my fault for not
being more careful/knowledgable before I changed linux.conf.

Thanks,

Warren




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