Re: System crash!!! How do I recover when my disaster disk doesn't boot
> I was just finished ftping a file to get Mosaic running when, as root, I
> issued this command from my /bin directory: mv lib* /temp.
> ... this seems to have erased my filesystem and commands (as may
> already be obvious to some of you.)
> Now my system hangs during boot. I can't seem to recover with my disaster
> disk. The disaster disk fails giving me the Loading Linux ... and then
> "Boot failed" error.
I was able to recover from a similar disaster (I messed up the shared library
configuration a good one) by going back to the initial install procedure
I used to put Linux on the machine. In this case I started it up from DOS
using the loadlin stuff.
When I got into the installation procedure, I skipped past initializing
the disk partition stuff and popped open an alternate console using the
control alt digit stuff. When I got there, there was a good RAM-based
Unix in control and my hard disk partition was mounted on something like
/install or something like that.
In short, I was able to UNDO the bad things I had done to the shared
library configuration using the tools on the RAM-disk based Linux that
was there for the installation procedure.
Maybe you can use something like this?
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Charles B. (Ben) Cranston
mailto:zben@ni.umd.edu
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~zben
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