graceful back out of 2.6.17

[Lutz Kaiser]

hi all,

i use lilo as bootloader, there you can use alias-keys forinstance, the new
kernel starts with alias 2 the old one with alias 3...

The latest kernel from Shane worked also the Speakup_help did working.
regards
Lutz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: graceful back out of 2.6.17


> 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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