Re: Help! Major crash in Hamm upgrade!

1998-06-02 Thread Mark Phillips
Thanks guys for your help! I can't thank you enough!!! > Use the Debian Rescue disk to boot your system but mount your existing > root partition as the root instead of allowing the rescue disk to mount a > ram disk as root. For example, when presented with the "boot:" prompt > from the rescue d

Re: Help! Major crash in Hamm upgrade!

1998-06-01 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Use the Debian Rescue disk to boot your system but mount your existing root partition as the root instead of allowing the rescue disk to mount a ram disk as root. For example, when presented with the "boot:" prompt from the rescue disk type: linux root=/dev/hda1 Substitute whatever

Re: Help! Major crash in Hamm upgrade!

1998-06-01 Thread Mark Phillips
I can help it!) Is there anyone in particular I should be sending this to? Waiting anxiously, Mark. -Forwarded Message Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 21:15:53 +0930 (CST) From: Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Help! Major cr

Re: Help! Major crash in Hamm upgrade!

1998-05-31 Thread Mark Phillips
Back again. I've tried a few more things and thought I should report what I've found. (In case you didn't read my earlier email - I've had a major crash while attempting to upgrade to hamm.) I have managed to boot under a rescue disc (I think it's a bo one). I copied e2fsck from my brother's c

Help! Major crash in Hamm upgrade!

1998-05-31 Thread Mark Phillips
The last few days I have been upgrading to hamm. I rebooted my computer and it died badly. Instead of coming up with lilo, it repeatedly typed: LI LI LI LI LI LI ...etc down the screen. It looks like the boot sector has been corrupted or something like that, but I don't know what I've done wh