Re: [newbie] booting in console mode and seeing booting logs to diagnose problem

2001-11-23 Thread bascule
On Friday 23 Nov 2001 10:53 am, you wrote: if you have a boot disk for your system and all you have done is rearranged your partition scheme (sucessfully one assumes!) i.e. no kernel changes etc. then you should be able to boot with the disk and when you get to the lilo prompt type: linux root

Re: [newbie] booting in console mode and seeing booting logs to diagnose problem

2001-11-23 Thread Anke & Max
Gidday Anguo You couldn't download one of those linux on a floppy distro's and boot from that could you? (Tomsboot?) I'm only guessing here. Then you could make the changes you need to and reboot. Also I've read somewhere about a command something like chroot where you can (I think) change from on

Re: [newbie] booting in console mode and seeing booting logs to diagnose problem

2001-11-23 Thread Anguo
Hi all! I have been looking in the archives for the answer to the first question below, but so far, I haven't found the solution. I am sure that the answer is simple. Do you know it? I dual boot win98 + Mandrake 8.1 Questions: 1- How can I use the boot disk to boot into the console mode rathe

Re: [newbie] booting in console mode

2001-11-23 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:31:13 +0800, "Anguo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - $B1H%s*L(B: Anuerin G. Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >does this mean that you can now enter your system? precisely not. I can't. the graphical login is a hindrance righ

Re: [newbie] booting in console mode and seeing booting logs to diagnose problem

2001-11-23 Thread Anguo
Ouch! I just saw this: http://www.linux.com/howto/LILO-crash-rescue-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.4 "You MUST make emergency boot disk from time to time and whenever you make changes to the partition. Insert a blank floppy" which, of course, I didn't do... so the partition table on the boot floppy doens't c

Re: [newbie] booting in console mode

2001-11-23 Thread Anguo
- Original Message - ±H¥óªÌ: Anuerin G. Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have been looking in the archives for the answer to the first question > > below, but so far, I haven't found the solution. I am sure that the answer > > is simple. Do you know it? > > > > I dual boot win98 + Mandrake

Re: [newbie] booting in console mode and seeing booting logs to diagnose problem

2001-11-23 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
Anguo wrote: > Hi all! > > I have been looking in the archives for the answer to the first question > below, but so far, I haven't found the solution. I am sure that the answer > is simple. Do you know it? > > I dual boot win98 + Mandrake 8.1 > > Questions: > 1- How can I use the boot disk to b

[newbie] booting in console mode and seeing booting logs to diagnose problem

2001-11-22 Thread Anguo
Hi all!   I dual boot win98 + Mandrake 8.1   Questions: 1- How can I use the boot disk to boot into the console mode rather than the graphical login?   2- Where can I then see the logs of the booting sequences.   Problem: KDE or any other window manager won't start anymore. The graphic login