graceful back out of 2.6.17

[John Heim]

Question: Why did you press ctrl+c when rebooting? Is that a hotkey in grub 
or lilo?

If I install a kernel that doesn't work, I usually press the up cursor arrow 
until I'm sure the grub menu is on the screen. Then I press the down arrow 
until I think I'm on the old kernel.  It would be nice if there was an 
easier way to do this.

I guess though... How would you know how many times to press ctrl+c?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:34 PM
Subject: graceful back out of 2.6.17


>I managed to do a graceful back out of 2.6.17-speakup-686 kernel a few
> minutes ago.  The speakup-key-help module caused a fatal since it wasn't
> in 2.6.17 so I rebooted and hit control-c a few times and
> 2.6.12-1-speakup-686 came back and started talking.  Having removed
> speakup-key-help from kernel and rebooted I tried another kernel install
> and was told hotplug needed to be purged.  That's no problem, but busybox
> couldn't find something it needed so it deleted all of the kernel-2.6.17
> modules and dropped me at the root prompt.  After that I removed the rest
> of 2.6.17 and rebooted out of there.  Later I'll do all of this again but
> run script before trying andsend the script file since maybe other things
> are needing fixing. Oh, udev couldn't run stating it needs 2.6.15 and
> maybe put a greater sign after that but I didn't find that either. I'm
> donating that ati monitor to smartco.org in a couple weeks and have a
> gateway ev910 which was a Sony Trinitron originally and got a G-Force
> nvidia card for it I'm installing tonight to replace all of that ati
> equipment.  Could be I get into X after that time will tell.
>
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