Okay, so the potato rescue disk seems to kick in alright, at the boot prompt I type 'rescue root=/dev/hda1'. I get a whole string messages as it locates some things and fails to find others - seems alright to me - but ends with the line 'Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root on fs 03:01' at which point nothing more happens!
Mark Janssen wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:11:49PM +0000, Simon R Tod wrote: > > That should be perfectly straightforward... but while a floppy has > > 1457664 bytes on it, rescue.bin is 1474560 bytes, so won't fit! The > > rescue.bin file on http://..../images-1.20/ will fit on a standard > > floopy, but how does this differ from the /images-1.44/ version? > > The rescue.bin file WILL fit on a floppy, the size you specify is the > empty space on a floppy after you created a filesystem on it (overhead) > When you rawrite / dd the rescue.bin image to a floppy it overwrites the > filesystem, and it WILL fit. Just boot from floppy then. > > >From DOS/WIN32 > rawrite rescue.bin a: > > >From Unix/Linux > dd if=rescue.bin of=/dev/fd0 > > Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS > IT > E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nl GnuPG Key Id: > 357D2178 > Web: Maniac.nl Unix-God.[Net|Org] MarkJanssen.[com|net|org|nl] > SyConOS.[com|nl] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
