Re: kinit/resume - what's it mean? how to boot from failed sys??

2008-03-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 08:30:08PM +, michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Thanks for the ideas (eg using liveCD etc)... in the end from initramfs I created /tmp/boot, told dmraid to not activate, and then mounted the (known) /dev/hdaN partition as /tmp/boot and renamed the errant

Re: kinit/resume - what's it mean? how to boot from failed sys??

2008-03-21 Thread michael
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 08:09 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 08:30:08PM +, michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Thanks for the ideas (eg using liveCD etc)... in the end from initramfs I created /tmp/boot, told dmraid to not activate, and then mounted the

kinit/resume - what's it mean? how to boot from failed sys??

2008-03-20 Thread michael
Hands up to making a mistake - I've been trying to get my AMD64 Debian 'etch' box to recognise a Promise controller and thought that installing dmraid would help. I did a apt-get install dmraid and then rebooted... only to find it in BusyBox with a initramfs prompt and no idea as

Re: kinit/resume - what's it mean? how to boot from failed sys??

2008-03-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 04:37:36PM +, michael wrote: Hands up to making a mistake - I've been trying to get my AMD64 Debian 'etch' box to recognise a Promise controller and thought that installing dmraid would help. I did a apt-get install dmraid and then rebooted... only to find

Re: kinit/resume - what's it mean? how to boot from failed sys??

2008-03-20 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/20/08, michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hands up to making a mistake - I've been trying to get my AMD64 Debian 'etch' box to recognise a Promise controller and thought that installing dmraid would help. I did a apt-get install dmraid and then rebooted... only to find it in BusyBox with

Re: kinit/resume - what's it mean? how to boot from failed sys??

2008-03-20 Thread michael
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 16:37 +, michael wrote: Hands up to making a mistake - I've been trying to get my AMD64 Debian 'etch' box to recognise a Promise controller and thought that installing dmraid would help. I did a apt-get install dmraid and then rebooted... only to find it