Re: Hard drive crash

2001-02-02 Thread Jerry Feldman
I logged into a Red Hat 7 system, and it was there. On 2 Feb 2001, at 13:55, Charlie Farinella wrote: > At 12:03 PM 2/2/01 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: > >The way you did it won't work because of the way you created the boot > >disk (I am assuming that you created the boot disk with the with the

Re: Hard drive crash

2001-02-02 Thread Charlie Farinella
At 12:03 PM 2/2/01 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: >The way you did it won't work because of the way you created the boot >disk (I am assuming that you created the boot disk with the with the >/boot partition on your dead drive). Actually that drive is still good, but your point is well taken. >Y

RE: Hard drive crash

2001-02-02 Thread Mansur, Warren
man [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hard drive crash The way you did it won't work because of the way you created the boot disk (I am assuming that you created the boot disk with the with the /boot partition on your dead

Re: Hard drive crash

2001-02-02 Thread Jerry Feldman
The way you did it won't work because of the way you created the boot disk (I am assuming that you created the boot disk with the with the /boot partition on your dead drive). You can use the rdev command to make corrections to the diskette. example: rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hdb2 In the past, when

Re: Hard drive crash

2001-02-02 Thread Rich Payne
What are you passing to the kernel on the floppy for the root filesystem? Remember that if hda has died and been removed, then what you think of as hdb is now hda. So you'll have to tell the kernel that root is /dev/hda2, not hdb2. --rdp On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Charlie Farinella wrote: > Good morn