Re: Linux-2.6.5-1.358 and Fedora

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Oct 05 2004 - 14:54:59 EST



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

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