wasthe motherboard itself udated?
if so, I would suggest that you do an install using the "upgrade" option
to reinstall the existing kernel and rewrite the lilo.

I have had this expereince before and that is generally the neatest and
easiest way around the problem. However, if you are a masochist, you can
edit a number of the conf files and perhaps even rerun lilo, but it looks
more like the kernel itself may be the problem.

Hawke

On Thu, 12 April 2001

, "Carl Parrish" wrote:

> 
> Okay I just upgraded on of my old boxes (new chip, motherboard, and case).
> It's a dual boot box and Windows comes up does it's plug and play thing and
> more or less is done (it doesn't seem to be able to see the new sound card
> but since I never use M$98 I don't care). But when I tell Lilo to boot up
> into Linux I get the following error message
> 
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> In swapper task - not syncing
> 
> Okay with my boot disk I'm able to do linux recover and come into some kind
> of shell but I don't know any of the commands here can the filesystem looks
> weird. How do I get my linux box back up? Is there a command which will
> attempt syncing for me?
> 
> Thanks all
> Carl P.
> 
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