--- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:17:43AM -0500, Narins, > Josh wrote: > > Dear Debian folk, > > Important Question... If my hard drive crashed, > and my machine boots > > from the hard drive, how far in the boot process > would it get? > > How long is a piece of string? > > > If I just messed up /etc/fstab (1), how can I fix > it? > > I've got some rescue disks, but NONE for any of > my 2.4.x kernels. > > They were all too big to fit on a floppy. They are > for 2.2.x > > I recently managed to nuke my 2.4 system and booted > it just fine from > a 2.2 kernel floppy, made from the boot image on my > Debian CD. I just > ignore all the stuff about configuring the > installation and go > straight to "Execute a shell". I can then fsck > /dev/hda4, mount > /dev/hda4 /target and go into it and mess about. > (Adjust dev > appropriately for your system...) > > I can't, of course, use the boot floppy to make it > boot from the HD. > > The boot floppy incorporates an editor "ae" with > which you can fix > /etc/fstab. Well, that's the theory. The version of > "ae" on my boot > floppy locks the system up if you try and run it. > That's the slink > one, you probably have a newer one which probably > works. Try it out > BEFORE you mount the HD otherwise you'll have to > fsck it all over again. > > > After (IF?) this gets resolved, I'll have to > learn to make a > > bootable CD "rescue" disk. :) > > Even if you successfully resolve it without one? :-) > > > By the way, the boot goes for a while, obviously > some modules are > > being looked at, then I get a kernel panic, and > the suggestion I pass root= > > to tell it where to look for the hard drive. > > I don't think it's looking at any modules - how can > it see them if it can't > find the root? What messages does it give? > > > This happens with any of my kernels on the > machine, or any of my > > rescue disks. > > Is there a terminology confusion here? My "rescue > disk" is a floppy > made from resc1440.bin on my Debian CD. It boots - > even if there are no > hard drives in the machine at all - into a > single-user mode whence you > can either install Debian, or execute a shell in > which to mount the > hard drive and fix stuff. It doesn't try and look > for anything on the > hard drive while it's booting. > > > Thanks a ton, I'm really working hard to use > Debian always. I love > > the multiple-arches, > > I like viaducts too. Amazing to think they were all > built by hand. > > > I love apt-get and dselect, but it ALWAYS seems > like I > > am having one trouble or the other :) > > Whereas in Windoze, either you can't fix the > problems, or you can fix > them but you have to do so time and again because > the OS keeps > re-breaking them. > > > (1) trying to swtich from /cdrom to /cdrom0 and > /cdrom1, maybe I > > accidentally edited the wrong line, also? > > Could be... > > Pigeon > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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