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On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:22:08 +0100, Tom Potts wrote: > On Friday 15 August 2008 16:38, Simon Waters wrote: >> Tom Potts wrote: >> > After I got my Viglen I played with it a bit and installed a few > things >> > and updated but not upgraded. >> > Now it wont boot - a Kernel panic! >> > Its got USB and no 'real' keyboard and wont respond to F1 or ESC to >> > choose a different kernel (if thats the problem) >> > Any ideas on where to go (other than back to Viglen of course..) >> >> What boot loader are you using? >> >> GRUB with hiddenmenu is "esc". >> Lilo uses "tab". > The box has USB2 and USB1.1 ports - I had the keyboard/mouse in the 2.0 > ports > at the front of the box and could get no response on those. Plugged then > in > the 1.1 at the back et voila they worked so I could add a few params to > the > kernel to get it going - specifically "pci=noacpi pnpbios=off" and all is > well ish -surely kernel params should be carried over to kernel upgrades? > Tom te tom te tom Depends where you put them. It would seem that most distros automatically generate GRUB/LiLo entries - if the kernel's parameters were added to your bootloader's config file manually and were not added to the "template", these modifications wouldn't necessarily follow through to upgrades. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html