Thanks/Re: emergency disk/mounting files

1999-01-19 Thread KTB
Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, KTB wrote: > > > I don't know that I can explain it very well but I'm booting to begin > > with from the rescue disk. When "boot:" comes up I type "linux > > init=/bin/sh" There is no color screen I'm not sure what a mono screen > > is. I just get

Re: emergency disk/mounting files

1999-01-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, KTB wrote: > I don't know that I can explain it very well but I'm booting to begin > with from the rescue disk. When "boot:" comes up I type "linux > init=/bin/sh" There is no color screen I'm not sure what a mono screen > is. I just get the regular non-X screen. I tried "m

Re: emergency disk/mounting files

1999-01-19 Thread KTB
Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, KTB wrote: > > > > > I need to change an X config file I screwed up so I can get into Linux. > > > I'm using my boot disk to get to root, so I can bypass X, so I can edit > > > the file. This is the mes

Re: emergency disk/mounting files

1999-01-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, KTB wrote: > > > I need to change an X config file I screwed up so I can get into Linux. > > I'm using my boot disk to get to root, so I can bypass X, so I can edit > > the file. This is the message and prompt I get when booting from

Re: emergency disk/mounting files

1999-01-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, KTB wrote: > I need to change an X config file I screwed up so I can get into Linux. > I'm using my boot disk to get to root, so I can bypass X, so I can edit > the file. This is the message and prompt I get when booting from the > floppy: > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesys

Re: emergency disk/mounting files

1999-01-19 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 12:12:16AM -0600, KTB wrote: > I need to change an X config file I screwed up so I can get into Linux. > I'm using my boot disk to get to root, so I can bypass X, so I can edit > the file. This is the message and prompt I get when booting from the > floppy: > > VFS: Mounte

emergency disk/mounting files

1999-01-19 Thread KTB
I need to change an X config file I screwed up so I can get into Linux. I'm using my boot disk to get to root, so I can bypass X, so I can edit the file. This is the message and prompt I get when booting from the floppy: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) read only. sh: /usr/bin/check -sendfile: