On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 08:09 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 08:30:08PM +0000, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > Thanks for the ideas (eg using liveCD etc)... in the end from initramfs > > I created /tmp/boot, told dmraid to not activate, and then mounted the > > (known) /dev/hdaN partition as /tmp/boot and renamed the errant > > (non-working dmraid) initrd.img-${KERNEL} to ${WHATEVER} and renamed > > the initrd.img.${KERNEL}.bak (that presumably dmraid had created) to > > initrd.img and did a reboot so it picked up the old, working initrd > > image and away I went to the working system (then apt-get remove dmraid) > > If you're using grub, you can avoid some of those steps by just > adjusting the boot script (type "e" at the boot menu and change the > initrd that gets loaded).
true, but since I didn't know what was happening in /boot let alone initrd names I had to mount it first but thanks for pointing out one can temp amend Grub boot options -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]