[KLUG Members] I messed up my Kernel install

[Richard Harding]

Bruce Smith wrote:

>>>>I installed SuSE 9 on this nice new IBM last night and today attempted 
>>>>to recompile the kernel to 2.6.3. I got things to go well and made it 
>>>>through a make install. I walked away and once I came back it was done. 
>>>>I then decided to reboot and once I could not boot back up realized I 
>>>>forgot the make module_install step.
>>>>
>>>>So my question is now how can I get back to my system to make my modules 
>>>>and complete the kernel upgrade? Any and all help is appreciated. I know 
>>>>I can boot from a install disk, but I am unsure where to go from there.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks a ton for helping me get this running.
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>>>>
>>>Boot under the old/stock kernel.
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>>It is not in the grub menu however so how could I boot to the older kernel?
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>Why not?  Did you remove it from the menu?  
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>Or did you uninstall the stock kernel?
>(if you removed the old kernel, there's no way I can help you via email)
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>If the old kernel's still there, you can go to the grub command prompt
>and type in the commands manually (that used to be in the menu config).
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>Or try booting the SuSE CD/DVD and try some of the recovery options,
>I've never tried them personally, so I don't know if they'll help.
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> - BS
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I read that make install left your old kernel, but would update grub to 
link to the new one. I am looking for command as to how I can either 
edit the grub file to point to the old kernel image, or to boot off a 
rescue disk and somehow mount the laptop partition to run the make 
modules command on the /usr/src/linux directory. At least I think these 
will work if I can figure out the commands necessary.

If not I will just have to go and reinstall and this time upgrade the 
kernel before I do anything else so that I don't lose a bunch of work 
setting up a new system.

Thanks for your help.

Rick