[ncsuapex]

Hey,

I actually blew away my kernel and now Redhat 9 will not load. I have gone through the "rescue" process available on the installation CDs and it still will not load. How can I reinstall RH9 with out losing any of the old data?

thanks

j

[tsunam]

Well there's a couple of options. We could learn how to mount and get back into your enviroment via a cd and then go about reconfiguruing a new kernel to use, or we could do the backup data (assuming you have extra space not used) and then reinstall.

[ncsuapex]

Im game for anything right about now. What in your opinion would be the best way?

[ncsuapex]

ok,

I used my bootdisk and was able mount my system to /mnt/sysimage then I ran: chroot /mnt/hda2, then I ran grub-install /dev/hda2, then exit, exit and my system rebooted.

It looked like it was going to boot, it ran through most of the start scripts then it got stuck on this error:


/usr/sbin/httpd relocation error /lib/tls/libpthreadiso.0 symbol = resp, version glibc_private not defined in file libc.so6 with link time reference.





What is that? And how can I fix it?

[tsunam]

well you could stop the httpd from running at startup and get past that...of course if you run a webserver you sorta need that to be operational. Samething boot up chroot, and then hopefully you can do a rc-update del httpd. that should allow you to boot without it starting.

[ncsuapex]

i was able to work my way through the "Interactive" startup, then I got a message about Xwindows spawning. I was able to change the init file for run level 3, but then when I tried to "startx" it said, command not found. Then I tried to install Gnome desktop and I got the same libc errors. So Im just going to do the "upgrade" install option and hopefully not lose my data