Re: is it possible to use wheezy CD to rescue stretch
Long Wind wrote: ... > but initrd on CD is intended for install, not for my purpose > no luck, i may have to find other way can you download and create a USB stick with the relevant netinst image on it? that has a rescue aspect which should be compatible. songbird
Re: is it possible to use wheezy CD to rescue stretch
Le 10/01/2019 à 01:21, Long Wind a écrit : Thanks, i browse Help of wheezy CD, i don't know what rescue it can do its advanced option allows you to specify boot option before boot,vmlinuz, initrd, root=/dev/sda2 ... (my stretch is installed at sda2) but initrd on CD is intended for install, not for my purpose The rescue mode will ask you to select the root filesystem and start a shell on it (with chroot). You can also start a shell in the installer (initramfs).
Re: is it possible to use wheezy CD to rescue stretch
Thanks, i browse Help of wheezy CD, i don't know what rescue it can do its advanced option allows you to specify boot option before boot,vmlinuz, initrd, root=/dev/sda2 ... (my stretch is installed at sda2) but initrd on CD is intended for install, not for my purpose no luck, i may have to find other way On Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:01 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 09/01/2019 à 23:26, Long Wind a écrit : > i have wheezy CD, it has rescue option, is it possible to use it to boot > stretch? Not always. Wheezy's kernel and e2fsprogs tools do not support newer ext4 features such as csum_metadata which are enabled by default on ext4 filesystems created by Stretch's tools.
Re: is it possible to use wheezy CD to rescue stretch
Le 09/01/2019 à 23:26, Long Wind a écrit : i have wheezy CD, it has rescue option, is it possible to use it to boot stretch? Not always. Wheezy's kernel and e2fsprogs tools do not support newer ext4 features such as csum_metadata which are enabled by default on ext4 filesystems created by Stretch's tools.
Re: is it possible to use wheezy CD to rescue stretch
On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 10:26:51PM +, Long Wind wrote: >i have stretch, but can't boot it, i think its grub is bad, i want to boot >into it so that i can run grub-install to fix it. >i have wheezy CD, it has rescue option, is it possible to use it to boot >stretch? in early Debian CD, it's possible. Thanks! Yes, that should be possible. If the tools available in the wheezy installer environment are insufficient, then you chroot into the broken jessie environment to issue whatever grub commands you need to restore your installation to working order. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
is it possible to use wheezy CD to rescue stretch
i have stretch, but can't boot it, i think its grub is bad, i want to boot into it so that i can run grub-install to fix it. i have wheezy CD, it has rescue option, is it possible to use it to boot stretch? in early Debian CD, it's possible. Thanks!
