Re: deleted /boot files

2005-01-04 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Friday, 31 December 2004, you wrote: are there suggestions on how to get the fa311 netgear nic working w/ 2.2.20-compact? >>> >>>sounds like you need to tell it to load the tulip driver for fa311 >>> >>>and than tell i upgrade the kernel and it'd run lilo/grub >>>and you're back in b

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-31 Thread Adam Aube
Harland Christofferson wrote: > Before I created this mess, I was running the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. > I tried the rescue.bin and root.bin floppies from the Debian site > but I was not able to boot w/ them. I was able to boot w/ the 2.2. > 20-compact floppies however. > > Now, using 2.2.20-compact,

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-31 Thread Harland Christofferson
>> >>sounds like raid is working ?? .. >> - in the future, do NOT copy files from one disk to another >> ( that is not how raid mirroring works ) > >> >>> are there suggestions on how to get the fa311 netgear nic working >>> w/ 2.2.20-compact? >> >>sounds like you need to tell it to lo

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-29 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: >On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: > >> what i did try was Alan's suggestion of the Debian rescue disk. I >> have never used it in a capacity such as this. I used the 2.2.20- >> compact rescue, root, driver-1 a

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: > what i did try was Alan's suggestion of the Debian rescue disk. I > have never used it in a capacity such as this. I used the 2.2.20- > compact rescue, root, driver-1 and driver-2 binaries. I am able to > boot from the hard drive (woohoo) but

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
> >I have never done what I am about to suggest, but try this: > >1. copy the whole contents of the directory /lib/modules/xxx/ from the >computer where you got your replacement /boot onto the computer that >you are trying to get going again. Here 'xxx' represents the kernel version >string of th

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:31:49PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > At Monday, 27 December 2004, you wrote: > > >On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:59:53PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > >> At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> info> wrote: > >> > >> >* Harl

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: > while getting ready to build a raid 1 array, i accidentally deleted > the /boot files. the partition is still there however and is still > flagged as boot partition. > > although i have a boot floppy for this machine, i could not retrieve >

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 27 December 2004, you wrote: >On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:59:53PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: >> At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> info> wrote: >> >> >* Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041227 >> 17:47]: >> > >> >> >cat /etc/lilo.c

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:59:53PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > info> wrote: > > >* Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041227 > 17:47]: > > > >> >cat /etc/lilo.conf > >[..] > >> image=/vmlinuz > >> labe

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] info> wrote: >* Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041227 17:47]: > >> >cat /etc/lilo.conf >[..] >> image=/vmlinuz >> label=Linux >> read-only >> # restricted >> # alias=1 >> initrd=/ini

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041227 17:47]: > >cat /etc/lilo.conf [..] > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-only > # restricted > # alias=1 > initrd=/initrd.img You need to symlink boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-k7 to /initrd.img signature.asc Descr

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 27 December 2004, Laurent CARON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Harland Christofferson wrote: > >>an update to my saga is that i was able to run lilo. however, when >>trying to boot, i see: >> >>request_module{block-major-3]: root fs not mounted >>VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:0

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Laurent CARON
Harland Christofferson wrote: an update to my saga is that i was able to run lilo. however, when trying to boot, i see: request_module{block-major-3]: root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 Please append correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount roo

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
an update to my saga is that i was able to run lilo. however, when trying to boot, i see: request_module{block-major-3]: root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 Please append correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 my root= optio

deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
while getting ready to build a raid 1 array, i accidentally deleted the /boot files. the partition is still there however and is still flagged as boot partition. although i have a boot floppy for this machine, i could not retrieve a backup of the /boot partition from another hard disk i have.