Can't start with my old kernel

[chris-tux]

Hi all,

I have tried to migrate from 10.0 to 10.1 official with lot of difficulties (more than all the previous migrations...exemple:10.1 found that my PC has 2 processors now !!!). Anyway, it seems now that everything works more or less except my dvb applications (vdr...). It seems that there is a problem between kernel 2.6.8 and the DVB drivers or the firmware of my dvb-s card. So, I want to boot back to my old 2.6.7 kernel.

I thought that when you choose upgrade during the installation of 10.1, you can still have access to your old kernel. But when I choose 2.6.7 at lilo prompt, I can't go up to the login process...

Please, I will appreciate to boot my old 10.0

Chris

 

[chris@tuxedo chris]$ cat /etc/lilo.conf
# File generated by DrakX/drakboot
# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file

default="linux"
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
keytable=/boot/fr-latin1.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
       label="linux"
       root=/dev/hda1
       initrd=/boot/initrd.img
       append="splash=silent"
       vga=791
       read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
       label="linux-nonfb"
       root=/dev/hda1
       initrd=/boot/initrd.img
       append="splash=silent"
       read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-7mdk
       label="263-7"
       root=/dev/hda1
       initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3-7mdk.img
       append="devfs=mount splash=silent"
       vga=788
       read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp
       label="linux-smp"
       root=/dev/hda1
       initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img
       append="devfs=mount splash=silent"
       read-only
other=/dev/fd0
       label="floppy"
       unsafe
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-7mdk
       label="alt_263-7"
       root=/dev/hda1
       initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3-7mdk.img
       append="devfs=mount splash=silent"
       read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
       label="failsafe"
       root=/dev/hda1
       initrd=/boot/initrd.img
       append="failsafe acpi=ht splash=silent"
       read-only

[arctic]

no wonder you can't boot into 2.6.7. you only have 2.6.3 kernels in your lilo.conf. create duplicate entries of your first linux boot sequence and change the kernelnumber in vmlinuz and initrd to 2.6.7. also make sure that the 2.6.7 kernel is still installed. if it is on another partition (another distro) you need to change the /dev/hdxx entries accordingly.

[chris-tux]

Sorry, I should have written 2.6.3-7 as it is in lilo.conf. After reading a previous and having added "devfs=nomount" I have succedeed to go to the login. 2.6.3-7 is loaded but my dvb application (vdr) is not working anymore (no more /dev/dvb/...). Since I do not understand devfs and udev (in 2.6.3-7, I thought that defvsd was automatically creating the devices for me..) I can't make any progress :unsure:

Ooops...

Any Help Appreciated