On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 at 12:40:15PM +0000, hantslug@??? wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what kernel Sarge, last updated about 3 days ago, would be
> running?
>
> I have foolishly mucked up a new installation on hdb in my husband's box - and
> messed up Grub, so that I can't access the perfectly good sarge installation
> on hda as a protem solution to his box being usable. And because I can't
> access it, I can't just run uname -a. :-(
If it boots to grub okay, then you don't need to know the version of the
kernel as long as there is a kernel and a corresponding initrd on the disk.
Once GRUB has started you can manually build the start stanza, it even
supports a bash like tab-completetion editor. It's hard to describe in
an email, but if GRUB is working okay and there is a kernel and initrd
on a disk, you should be able to tab-complete the stanza, and get it to
boot.
My Sarge box is currently running like this:
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-4-686
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-4-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-4-686
savedefault
boot
hd0,0 and hda1 are machine dependant, yours may vary.
HTH
--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
My organ doesn't work properly and emits strange burning smells
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