Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261875AbUJETt5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:49:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266221AbUJETrB (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:47:01 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:51138 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265127AbUJETmi (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:42:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 21:42:08 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Jesper Juhl Cc: "Johnson, Richard" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.5-1.358 and Fedora Message-ID: <20041005194208.GE11254@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <1097004565.9975.25.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1552 Lines: 42 --LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:46:18PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > If Richard overwrote his modules anyway he must have hacked the Makefile > > himself to deliberately cause this, at which point... well saw wind > > harvest storm ;) > > > While I lack specific Fedora knowledge and thus can't provide exact > details for it I'd say it should still be pretty simple to recover. On > Slackware I'd simply boot a kernel from the install CD and tell it to > mount the installed system on my HD, then you'll have a running system and > can easily clean out the broken modules etc and install the original ones > from your CD and be right back where you started in 5 min. Surely > something similar is possible with Fedora, reinstalling from scratch (as > he said he did) seems like massive overkill to me. yeah there is rescue mode for that reason on the first cd --LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBYvkQxULwo51rQBIRApxdAJ9XeWCZdVamUZ8f8+kuC6nyswbAHQCdHSRH awWqoVN9bNXTeLR4CR9/UPo= =lnip -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/