synaptic kernel

Michael Havens bmike101 at cox.net
Fri Jan 19 14:14:12 MST 2007


I don't believe I did that.... I must be blind!

I guess I need new glasses!

On Friday 19 January 2007 1:27 pm, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Try adding the rest of the parameters from the 2.6 kernel line to the 2.4
> kernel line.
>
> Michael Havens wrote:
> > COOOOOOL man.
> > sorta
> >
> > Well, I modified /boot/grub/menu.lst and the new kernel shows on the boot
> > screen but when it tries to boot I get a kernel panic. I made the two
> > kernel boot options identical so I don't know how to fix it. It is
> > complaining about the 'root=' line. Unfortunately, my template (the 2.6
> > kernel entry) doesn't have a 'root=' line so my creation doesn't either.
> >
> > Here is the relevant lines from pico /boot/grub/menu.lst:
> >
> > 	title Mepis with the 2-4 kernel
> > 	root (hd0,0)
> > 	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-k6
> > 	boot
> >
> > 	title MEPIS with kernel 2.6.15-26-386
> > 	root (hd0,0)
> > 	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-26-386 root=/dev/hda1 nomce quiet vga=791
> > 		acpi=off
> > 	boot
> >
> > On Thursday 18 January 2007 9:00 pm, JT Moree wrote:
> >> You should have menu entries at boot for both kernels.  The menu may be
> >> hidden and grub may say
> >>  starting in 5 4 3 2 1
> >>  press any key for menu
> >>
> >> it may also be configured to boot without delay.  edit the file
> >> /boot/grub/menu.lst to change grub settings.
> >>
> >> --
> >> JT Morée
> >> PC Xperience, Inc.


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