On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 05:34 GMT, Christof Hurschler penned:
I didn't get chroot to work because I wasn't using chroot correctly,
so thanks for the full command line on that. I think that will be
something usefull to know in the future.
Chris
I copied it from some notes I keep for
Hi,
I'm getting the LI hang on boot. I tried booting from my floppy, but it
gives me a kernel panic...
I now read that I can boot from floppy with the rescue root=/dev/hda1, but
I'm assuming that this is the default mode the floppy boots in anyways, or
is it?
If I could get back in with the
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:22:05AM +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote:
I'm getting the LI hang on boot. I tried booting from my floppy, but it
gives me a kernel panic...
with what message?
I now read that I can boot from floppy with the rescue root=/dev/hda1, but
I'm assuming that this is
it just stops with LI and goes no further. I read in the archives that
this means that Lilo can't completely load.
.. but what does the rescue command do?
Chris
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:22:05AM +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote:
I'm getting the LI hang on boot. I tried booting from my
Christof Hurschler wrote:
Hi,
I'm getting the LI hang on boot.
Probably because LILO didn't completely, properly get installed.
I tried booting from my floppy, but it
gives me a kernel panic...
I never boot from floppy, so am unfamiliar with the issues. If you have
a Debian installation
Christof Hurschler wrote:
it just stops with LI and goes no further. I read in the archives that
this means that Lilo can't completely load.
.. but what does the rescue command do?
you have to boot from the cdrom/floppy in rescue mod, then mount the
complete system hierarchy under some
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 11:33 GMT, Christof Hurschler penned:
it just stops with LI and goes no further. I read in the archives
that this means that Lilo can't completely load.
.. but what does the rescue command do?
Chris
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:22:05AM +0200, Christof Hurschler
I got back in by booting from an installation CD (bf2.4), with root=/dev/hda4
which was my root partition (I'd forgotten which one I was using, Knoppix
came in handy to figure that out). For some reason when I booted from that
CD my screen was jumbled, even when I switched to a text console.
Thanks so much for the response, I got it working (see my SOLVED post).
in the process of trying to get things working I did try Knoppix, I saw that
my partition was ok, since Knoppix was able to mount it, and I could also
tell which partition was actually my root partition because it had been
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