Boot from the CD using "boot installed system" and once you are back in then run depmod -a and rerun lilo. This should fix your problem. * Corvin Russell (corvinr@sympatico.ca) [000831 20:43]: -->I've hosed something in my system, but I don't know what, and I was hoping -->for some pointers before I play around any further with the rescue disk. --> -->I downloaded the 2.2.16 kernel rpm from Suse. (k_deflt, which was on my -->system). I checked the MD5 sums, which matched those on the ftp page. As -->this was the first time i would be upgrading my kernel, I looked around in -->various documentation to see if there were any warnings/advice on how to do -->this. not finding any, and assuming that the point of having an "rpm" is -->that it can be installed with rpm, I proceeded to rpm -U ./k_deflt.rpm in -->the directory where I had saved the rpm. --> -->Well that all went fine, except that at the end there were some messages -->that certain /lib/ files were not replaced. Now I wish I had written down -->which ones. Anyway, at this point I don't know what they are. Well I -->continued working for a while, looking to see what I should do -->next. Various programs started freezing. Netscape, ok that's normal. Then -->netstat just hung, which was weird. So I decided to reboot. then -- -->surprise! --> -->I get the "loading linux" message. then I get the "decompressing kernel" -->message, then it halts with a message like "no more data to load" or words -->to that effect. --> -->Can anyone suggest a probable cause and solution? --> -->Thanks. --> -->And only yesterday I was considering wiping Windows forever... --> --> -->corvin --> --> -->-- -->To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com -->For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com -->Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq -- Cheers, Ben Rosenberg Precision LINUX :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: SuSE Inc. Tel: +1-510-628-3380 ext:5086 580 Second St Suite 210 Fax: +1-510-835-3381 Suite 210 mailto:brosenb@suse.com Oakland CA 94607 U.S.A http://www.suse.com :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq