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bigskinnee
09-24-2001, 06:03 PM
OK I just overwrote my mbr with the "smart boot loader" unfortunately the sbl isnt so smart, cause it can only boot windows and doesnt see my linux partition. I do have a grub boot disk but only one problem I dont know the name of my kernel. This is a default Debian install and I havent upgraded the kernel yet so I dont know what the default on is called.

Right now in grub i could
root = (hd0,1)
kernel = /boot/? root=/dev/hda2
boot
but I need to know my kernel name.

And yes I lost my boot disk also.
Any help on how I can get back into my linux install would be great,

Thanks

My system is
Debian
hda1 windows
hda2 /root
hda5 /usr
hda6 /boot
hda7 swap

X_console
09-24-2001, 08:25 PM
Default kernel names are usually "vmlinuz" Maybe try that and see if it works. Otherwise, you should be able to create a Linux boot disk on Windows and then boot with that.