Hey all,

I was reinstalling Slackware on my Dell Inspiron 6000. I installed Slackware 10.1 and then used slackpkg to upgrade all my packages to 10.2. However, I upgraded my kernel to the 2.6.15.2 kernel so that I could use the wireless card on my computer.

When I used slackpkg to upgrade all my packages, I think it installed another 2.4 kernel. Due to the hardware in my laptop, in the 2.6 series of kernels, my hard drive is /dev/sda. Under 2.4 my hard drive is /dev/hda. Now, I've got LILO pointing to /dev/sda4, yet the kernel is detecting my hard drive as /dev/hda4. When it boots, I get a kernel panic.

Is there anyway I can get in and either reset LILO to look at /dev/hda4 for the kernel image or that I can just recompile my 2.6 kernel so that I can boot again?

Thanks,
Chris Moore

Hi,

You can use the install cd1 to boot then you can mount your device and chroot to it. Then edit your lilo.conf and run lilo again.

If you don't have a Salckware install disk, you can use another live-cd to boot to do the same thing.

HTH!

Thank you, that worked great.

I did not know of the chroot command. I simply booted using a Slax LiveCD, which uses the 2.6 kernel and I was able to easily recompile the kernel and reconfigure LILO and now it all works.

Thanks again

Please review the slackpkg settings you can use to exclude kernel and alsa from upgrades to avoid similar incidents in future. Happy slacking