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
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
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
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
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
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