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After completing the online upgrade process, I attempted a reboot and was unable to get back into Mandriva, due a kernel panic. I then burned the 2010.0 install iso and attempted a rescue, but I got a lilo failure :FATAL: open /boot/initrd-2.6.31.5-desktop-1mnb.img: no such file or directory. Taking a look at the boot partition reveals that several of the new kernel related files did not get copied. So, using the 2010.0 rescue disk, I was able to chroot into the old system and use urpme to get rid of everything related to kernel-2.6.31-5 and keep the previous kernel. I ran lilo-v and the configuration was updated without errors. However, now when I attempt to boot, I end up seeing the following information: RAMDISK - compressed image found RAMDISK - ran out of compressed data invalid compressed format (err=1) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: VFS: cannot open root device "815" or unknown block (8,21) Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block (8,21) Anyone have an idea what's wrong here?

Thanks, all for the replies. I found the problem(s) earlier today! 1. -- the installation of the new kernel only updated 2 of the 4 symlinks in /boot. However, repairing that still resulted in the lilo error being generated. 2. -- the error was actually being caused by an "orphaned" line of information hanging in the bottom of the /etc/fstab file! Once I deleted the extraneous data (don't know how it ended up that way) everything worked properly!

Thanks for the reply. The symlinks were not all updated, however updating them did not resolve the problem. I then changed the symlinks so that they only pointed to the original kernel supplied with 9.2 and removed references to the new kernel from lilo.conf. A subsequent attempt to run lilo -v still failed with the same error message: [root@TVR280i boot]# lilo -v LILO version 22.5.7.2, Copyright © 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Development beyond version 21 Copyright © 1999-2003 John Coffman Released 20-Aug-2003, and compiled at 16:45:54 on Sep 18 2003 Reading boot sector from /dev/sdd5 part_nowrite: read:: Input/output error phooey!!!!!

I did a completely fresh install of 9.2 and installed lilo with no problem. However after rebooting, logging in and installing all of the upgrades successfully, I then downloaded the updated kernel and did an rpm -ivh kernel2.4.22-21*.rpm. The kernel installed, but gave me an error when updating lilo. When attempting to manually update lilo with the new information, the following occurs: [root@TVR280i etc]# lilo -v LILO version 22.5.7.2, Copyright © 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Development beyond version 21 Copyright © 1999-2003 John Coffman Released 20-Aug-2003, and compiled at 16:45:54 on Sep 18 2003 Reading boot sector from /dev/sdd5 part_nowrite: read:: Input/output error Anyone know why this is happening? Never had this problem before 9.2!!!