On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:22:05AM +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote: > I'm getting the LI hang on boot. I tried booting from my floppy, but it > gives me a kernel panic...
with what message? > I now read that I can boot from floppy with the "rescue root=/dev/hda1", but > I'm assuming that this is the default mode the floppy boots in anyways, or > is it? is /dev/hda1 your / partition? if it isn't, if it is /dev/hdb2 or something, then boot from the rescue floopy so : linux root=/dev/hdb2 > If I could get back in with the floppy, I'd try rerunning LILO to get things > back in order, but I'm afraid I'm not going to get that far. Any > suggestions? How can I tell if I've got a real hardware problem? Knoppix? you can boot with the floppy even if you have hw(hdd) problems. if you cannot boot with root= explicit given, then boot with the installfloppy, wait until he wants to have rootfs disk, give it him, and when the installscreen comes, alt+f2 and you have a shell. HTH charlie -- Végh Károly - System Engineer - UTA - TIS.SAS.BSS Don't worry. Everything is getting nicely out of control. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
