--- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Take a deep breath. > Breathe out. > > OK. If you weren't having troubles with modules I'd > be more worried. > Since you seem to be having troubles with modules, > its possible that the > correct module for your drive/controller/whatever > isn't being loaded by > udev and whatever made your initrd. > > If you don't have a knoppix as someone suggested, > boot the install CD in > rescue mode and do the same thing. >
Thanks for the suggestion - would that "business-card" size cdrom work for that? I'll burn a cd, would take that one, unless that one won't work as rescue CD. Am hoping I can do a full fsck on the root disc just in case; shutdown -r -F now` doesn't seem to force that on the ext3 file system, is there a configuration to force a full fsck? > > And, of course, I hope you have good backups if not > for yourself, then > for your friend Justin Case. > Yea, I do have up-to-date backups > Doug. > Thanks, Joris ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]