Re: boot disk with telnetd ?
Stefan Langerman <lfalse@cereal.rutgers.edu> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I hope this is the right list to ask all this...
> A (very) remote machine of mine has recently stopped working.
> Actually, I think there might be a problem with the kernel
> or modules which I have just updated. I cannot access the machine
> physically, the best I can do is send a floppy and ask someone
> over there to boot the machine with it.
>
> So, I would like to make a boot disk that will allow me to
> telnet into my machine. So I imagine it would be possible to modify the
> root disk to contain a telnetd... Otherwise, I know that I have a working
> telnetd on my remote box, so would it be possible to just use
> the kernel and modules from the floppy, and the rest from the
> hard drive?
You can boot with the default disk and at the promt say
boot: linux root=/dev/xxxx
where xxxx is the device containing the root partition.
> I have installed the boot-floppies package, but I am having some
> trouble figuring out how this all works... any pointers? docs?
Hmm, the boot-floppy package is in a kind of a flux at the moment. The
current CVS version describes the neccessary steps (as few as they
are) in the README, but at the moment they don´t build. There should
be a new boot-floppy package in potato, which you should use.
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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