Yes I updated the motherboard. If I do an upgrade will it delete my partitions. Also the box was running RHat 6.2 and the only disk I can seem to find is RHAT 7.0 since the new motherboard has USB connections I kind of want to switch to 7.0 anyways but when I get to diskduird non of my partitions are labled (even though I *know* I named them). Can I just go though without formating any of my partitions? Carl sonotasystemadmin Parrish -----Original Message----- From: proudhawk@uswestmail.net To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Date: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:27 PM Subject: Re: HELP (again) >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. >> >> ________________________________________________ >> See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. >> >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > >Signup for your free USWEST.mail Email account http://www.uswestmail.net >________________________________________________ >See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss