Oh man.. This just keeps getting dumber :-(
(B
(BYou were right Sebyte, I needed to use your ISO, not the one I had. So I
(Bwas able to mount my fs, but then in an effort to change my initrd.img.old
(Bsymlink, I accidentally hosed my real initrd.img-2.4.25-powerpc! Doh!
(BAnd of course this ramdisk version of linux doesn't have mkinitrd either
(Bso I'm screwed until one of you kind souls bail me out.
(B
(BAnyone wanna be charitable and email me an initrd.img-2.4.25-powerpc?
(B
(BThanks... and sorry for the hassle.
(B
(BSean
(B
(B
(BOn Saturday 10 July 2004 10:31 pm, Sebastian Tennant wrote:
(B> > Thanks so much for your help Sebyte (and Colin). Unfortunately,
(B> > neither method seems to work for me. Colin's method looks like it's
(B> > gonna work but then panics for some reason. Sebyte's method looks
(B> > good up until I try to mount my filesystem --- there's nothing useful
(B> > in /dev :-( No hda-anything, just "cdroms", "floppy", "null", and
(B> > about 20 other misc things but no HDs... what now, Doc?
(B> >
(B> > Sean
(B>
(B> All I can suggest is to download and burn the iso I already mentioned.
(B> I just checked and the ramdisk created when I execute a shell includes
(B>
(B> /dev/hda
(B> /dev/hda1
(B> .
(B> .
(B> .
(B> /dev/hda20
(B>
(B> so mounting my root partition is a snip.
(B>
(B> Sorry I can't be more help.
(B>
(B> sebyte
(B
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