[ale] HOW2 compile bzImage on unbootable drive ?

[Courtney Thomas]

Thanks so much Jim.

I guess I could if I could remember the elusive bit about what is
necessary to intervene at bootup   :-)

Senility's hummin' along jes fine....

Sorry,
Courtney

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 20:28 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > The debacle rages on......
> >
> > Lost power this PM in the middle of a kernel recompile and now
> > need to enable 'make bzImage' on a drive that at bootup reports:
> >
> > invalid compressed format (err=1)
> > --System halted.
> >
> > Incidentally, Debian-2.4.17 on the way to Sarge via dist-upgrade.
> >
> > I can mount said unbootee on another booted drive.
> >
> > 'Preciate it,
> > Courtney
> 
> Can't you just boot the older kernel and retry your recompile?
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
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