repair system

Hi, ** This is for your information ** ** No disrespect---I am a Mandrake user for yrs - usually no problem doing this on MDK---still practising & learning Suse ** While practising on a spare HD I installed with rpm a kernel.....on Suse 9.0...like... rpm -Uvh k_athlon-2.4.21-121.rpm. *(yast and I do not understand each other yet).* Ok after install & reboot I was not able to my *little know-how* to get the system going. So I thought re-install...then I saw & took the option repair...auto repair...some interaction up to finish and reboot ...the OS is running on new kernel now. I like that - :) I am sure there should be an easirer way? Thanks Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux user # 330034 - still learning