I have tried to boot with the recovery floppy and it is giving me a lot of information:
First it is telling me that Insert ROOT floppy disk that is to be loaded into RAM.
Loading 1440 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk ...... DONE
VFS Mounted Root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
change_root: old root has d_count=1
trying to unmount old root...Okay
Freeing unused kernel memory : 64K freed
Warning unable to open an intinial console
Kernel panic... no init found. Try passing init = option to kernel.
After that all I get is a blinking cursor. It does not do anything at this point.
Am I totally up a creek without a pattel or can it be recovered?
I still have the inforamtion on the screen so if someone needs more info
let me know. I will tell you what it tells me on the screen.. This is now become
an emergency. I have a Linux package that I need to be running for Monday.
HELP
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On 1/13/2001 at 01:23 Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Steven Pierce wrote:
>
>>
>> Mikkel,
>>
>> When you say make a boot disk, during the install when I first did it?
>> I am not sure if I did that or not, but I think I still have the boot disk that
>> came with it when I purchased it. Will that do?
>> S
>>
>That should work picking the rescue mode. (If I remember correctly, 6.1
>still had the rescue option, and not a seperate rescue boot image.) You
>will have to use the second method. That requires you to know what
>partation your root file system is on. One thing I forgot - if you have a
>seperate boot partation, you will need to mount that off of /mnt/boot
>after you mount the root partation on /mnt.
>
>After you get the system running again, run mkbootdisk as root, so you
>have it for future problems.
>
>Mikkel
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