Lane....I had the same trouble with tomsrtbt and my scsi system
(my error was - EXT2-FS: 08:07: couldn't mount because of
unsupported optional features). The method I used to access my
file system in an emergency was to use Peanut like you tried to
use Debian, installed on a partition of a hard drive. It
doesn't require a very big partition. Give it a try at:
http://metalab.unc.edu/peanut/
Alan
Lane Lester wrote:
>
> Oh, the shame of it! I'm having to run Win98 to get online!
>
> In tweaking my Mandrake 7.0 installation, I managed to have lost
> access to it. I'm pretty sure it's the ide-scsi line I put in
> rc.local, and it causes a hang at the line:
> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
>
> The boot floppy I created when I installed Mandrake doesn't seem to
> give me a way to get past the problem so that I can edit rc.local.
>
> I tried to install Debian in another partition as a way to get at
> rc.local, but for some reason I couldn't get a boot floppy prepared,
> and I'd rather not lose my Mandrake lilo.
>
> I had on hand the tomsrtbt floppy version of Linux, and that boots OK,
> but I can't figure how to mount my Mandrake filesystem. I did the
> following without success:
> cd /mnt
> mkdir mandrake
> mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb8 /mnt/mandrake
>
> I got the generic mount failure message offering a half dozen
> different possibilities as the reason for failure.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Lane
>
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> Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
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