On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 05:16:27PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, John Marter wrote: > > > 1. chroot is not one of the commands on the rescue disk. > > I haven't had to do a rescue for several years, but the other > > time I started by doing a chroot to my usual disk partition. > > Is it normal to do rescues without chroot? > > Well, if your system is good enough too boot off I usually just tell > linux that it's Root is /dev/hda1 (or whatever) and have it boot off the > harddisk with the good kernel from the floppy, tell it that init is > /bin/sh and you'll get a nice shell prompt on a ro system.
Many times when I screw my system up...I find I have to re-lilo it
sldo...for a rescue disk which probably has chroot (I love chroot myself)
check out "Tom's Unix on a Floppy" or as a co-worker of mine
labels his copy "More Magic"
below is the lsm from the package
-Steve
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Title: tomsrtbt
Version: 1.1.4.47
Entered-date: 05APR98
Description: "The most Linux on one (1,722K) floppy."
1722MB boot/root rescue disk with a lot of hardware and tools.
Supports ide, scsi, tape, network adaptors, PCMCIA, much more.
About 100 utility programs and tools for fixing and restoring.
See 'ReadMe-Features' for the list of what's included. Not a
script, just the diskette image packed up chock full of stuff.
Also good as learn-unix-on-a-floppy as it has mostly what you
expect- vi, emacs, awk, sed, sh, manpages- loaded on ramdisks.
Keywords: rescue, recovery, emergency, floppy, tomsrtbt
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Oehser)
Maintained-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Oehser)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/recovery
1722 kB tomsrtbt-1.1.4.47.tar.gz
1 kB tomsrtbt-1.1.4.47.lsm
Alternate-site: ftp.clark.net/pub/toehser/rb
1722 kB tomsrtbt-current.tar.gz
Copying-policy: GPL
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