At the knoppix boot command, type "knoppix single" This will put you into a root shell. Mount your file systems. chroot to the root file system. try to fix it -- good luck :-)
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 07:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey, this oughta get a chuckle out of some of you... > I have Debian Sid with kernel 2.6.4, self-compiled, working fine untill... > I decided to recompile the kernel again, changing some stuff around, > building more stuff into it, and taking more stuff out... > when I did > dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.4_custom.2.0_i386.deb > I got an error at the end, something about couldn't make initrd image, but > I figured what the heck, it will still boot off the old kernel, since the > entries were still in /boot/grub/menu.list. > Wrong! > I can no longer boot at all, kernel-panic etc, so I am writing this while > booted to Knoppix. > I can't see how to use this as a 'recovery disk', cuz everything I try to > do, requires root access, and Knoppix by default has all accounts locked, > and no passwords, etc. > I was gonna try to reinstall my other kernel, but can't. > I am now hopelessly hosed, please advise! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
