mistakenly deleted vmlinuz

[Wolf-D. Perl]

hi,

i just installed rh7.3 kernel 2.4.18-4smp doing rpm -ivh kernel... .
after editing /etc/lilo.conf and making lilo i rebooted and works.

after that i wanted to make the new symlink in /boot to vmlinuz but i
mistakenly typed ln -s -f /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-4smp /boot/vmlinuz,
so my vmlinuz-2.4.18-4smp file is being replaced by a dead link.

how can i create the vmlinuz-2.4.18-4smp file again.
i don't have a bootdisk.

but still having the formerly kernel 2.4.28-3smp i can boot from.

is it the only way to boot the formerly kernel, remove the new kernel
package and install it new to get vmlinuz created again?

or another way?`

regards, wolf

[Lenard]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 07:57:30 -0700, Wolf-D. Perl typed:

> or another way?`

In this case it's OK to; rpm -ivh kernel-smp-2.4.18-4*.rpm --force

It will restore the missing vmlinuz and it should not matter which kernel
your running with.



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[David]

Wolf-D. Perl wrote:

> hi,
>
> i just installed rh7.3 kernel 2.4.18-4smp doing rpm -ivh kernel... .
> after editing /etc/lilo.conf and making lilo i rebooted and works.
>
> after that i wanted to make the new symlink in /boot to vmlinuz but i
> mistakenly typed ln -s -f /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-4smp /boot/vmlinuz,
> so my vmlinuz-2.4.18-4smp file is being replaced by a dead link.

The symlink isn't required as long as the "image=" line uses the
correct kernel.

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[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

Wolf-D. Perl wrote:

> hi,
>
> i just installed rh7.3 kernel 2.4.18-4smp doing rpm -ivh kernel... .
> after editing /etc/lilo.conf and making lilo i rebooted and works.

2.4.20-20smp is out, do that ASAP.

> after that i wanted to make the new symlink in /boot to vmlinuz but i
> mistakenly typed ln -s -f /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-4smp /boot/vmlinuz,
> so my vmlinuz-2.4.18-4smp file is being replaced by a dead link.
>
> how can i create the vmlinuz-2.4.18-4smp file again.
> i don't have a bootdisk.
>
> but still having the formerly kernel 2.4.28-3smp i can boot from.
>
> is it the only way to boot the formerly kernel, remove the new kernel
> package and install it new to get vmlinuz created again?
>
> or another way?`
>
> regards, wolf

??? You can do it by hand, and re-run LILO. But I really recommend going
to grub as soon as possible, it's just vastly superior due to its
ability to automagically parse grub.conf and generate new kernel entries.