Help me I killed my kernel [Solved]

guitarman · Last edited by guitarman on Mon Sep 27, 2004 2:21 am; edited 1 time in total

Well I just upgraded my kernel to the newest version of the mm-sources and I must of forgot to select an option in the menuconfig because when i restarted the computer I got a kernel panic saying no init found... The problem is my livecd wont mount my gentoo partition because of the reiser4 so I cant get into my system or get my old kernel back. IDk what to do now I dont got any other operating system on here so I cant burn a new livecd. Would it be possable to get a precompiled bzImage with reiser4 support and support for the /dev filesystem? I can still mount my partition with my kernel I just cant mount my gentoo installation.

codergeek42 · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:33 pm Post subject:

I can build you a 2.6 nitro-sources bzImage with Reiser4 supprt, except that the version magics may differ, so you may not be able to load any module,. but at least you will be able to get your system back up and running by mounting your root partition. (compiling in every filesystem statically, jsut in case).

/me goes to configure kernel...
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TNorthover · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:44 pm Post subject:

Looking at 2.6.9-rc2-mm2, the Reiser4 options aren't in the xconfig, so if you went by that you could well have missed it (I had to edit .config myself).

I'm compiling a kernel as well (I'd started, and I'm working on the basis that with luck one of our two will work for you). I'll be back with a URL in a minute.

codergeek42 · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:44 pm Post subject:

Do you still have your old kernel in /boot? If so, press 'e' on GRubs screen and you can edit which kernel and command-line to boot.
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codergeek42 · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:46 pm Post subject:

guitarman · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:56 pm Post subject:

Oops forgot to tell you what last working kernel I had. It was the mm-sources released before 2.6.9-rc2-mm2 if that helps. I guess thats why it didnt work I must of missed the reiser4 options...Unfortunately I dont have my old kernel sources I tried usin an older kernel to boot it and it got overwriten my last kernel.

codergeek42 · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:58 pm Post subject:

Dang. You don't mind if it's udev, do you? I can't seem to find the DevFS options anywhere in the kernel config...

EDIT: It won't compile for me correctly. Sorry

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guitarman · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:02 pm Post subject:

Nope I dont mind udev at all. BTW thanks for all the help.

TNorthover · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:05 pm Post subject:

guitarman · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:10 pm Post subject:

Yea I can still access my /boot partition I'm running links from my live cd right now I just downloaded your kernel. Gonna reboot now and see what happens....

guitarman · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:23 pm Post subject:

Thank you very much your kernel worked. I was able to boot into my gentoo install and get my old kernel back. Everythings working now.

TNorthover · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:24 pm Post subject:

Ah good, glad to hear it.

codergeek42 · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:27 pm Post subject:

Glad to hear it works. I would suggest burning yourself a resier4-enabled liveCD just in case something like this happens again...
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DaMouse · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 233

What i do is just have two kernels in grub.. Gentoo-Testing and Gentoo-stable.. so that i dont do this sorta thing..

"Thou who laughs last usually has a backup"

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marcansoft · n00b Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 19

I always have all major kernels on my grub plus a "fallback" kernel just in case

Anyway, since reiser4 doesn't work with AMD64 (AFAIK) I can fix anything from the livecd. It is good to have a rescue livecd lying aroud (that has anything you need) just in case.

codergeek42 · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:15 pm Post subject:

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