[lug] Not booting anymore?

[Scott A. Herod]

Don't know what it would happen but that second message sounds like
what I get when I forget to run lilo after putting a new kernel in
place.  As a test, you could try running lilo then booting the old
kernel again.

> PC Drew wrote:
> >
> > I've got a Dell Inspiron 3500 running Red Hat 6.0 (I think it's 6.0)
> > that's been working fine for...9 months now.  I woke up this morning,
> > turned it on, and it froze after the lilo prompt:
> >
> > LILO boot:
> > Loading new..........
> >
> > And then nothing.  When I tell it to boot the generic "linux" kernel,
> > it boots okay.
> >
> > I've got a third kernel called "old" and when I try to boot that,
> > here's what I get:
> >
> > LILO boot: old
> > Loading old..........
> > Uncompressing Linux...
> >
> > ran out of input data
> >
> >  -- System halted
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >