On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:44:14PM -0800, Rob Clark wrote: I found the easiest way was to untar a new base2.tgz onto a zip, boot on that zip and then mount my hosed system at /mnt.
Took a little futzing with fstab. But I could fdisk, mke2fs, untar and edit on another machine. > Is there a recommended way to recover? I have been poking around on my > root filesystem by passing init=... args to the kernel (ie init=/bin/ls > -F /bin /sbin) and have come the the conclusion that bash is the only > shell on the root fs. (There is /bin/csh which is a symlink to a > symlink to /usr/bin/tcsh, but /usr is a seperate fs.) I don't think > there is any way to recover without having a shell... because the root > fs is still mounted read-only, it would take at least two commands to > replace bash, but you only get one by using init=... . > > I am running out of ideas to try... any suggestions? > > > -- Rob > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039 1.207.657.5078 http://www.maine.com/ Database publishing, electronic commerce, office and internet integration.
