Re: Bug with Rescue Boot 2.2 0714
David Gast <gast@twinsun.com> writes:
> The version on the floppy I am using says `Rescue 2.2 0714'
>
> If I try something like
>
> boot: resue root=/dev/hda2 debug
>
> I get an error message
>
> SCSI:<fdomian> Detection failed (no card)
That is normal if you don't have a Future Domain SCSI card.
Why do you think is a bug? Is the kernel hanging there?
> I guess that the reason is that there is an incompatibility
> between this version of the rescue disk and the NE-2000
> ethernet card I have in my system.
Not necessarily.. Perhaps...
> Could you please confirm that if I use the option `ramdisk'
> that the rescue disk will not over-write my hard disk.
No, it shall not overwrite anything unless you ask it to.
> I want to use the rescue disk to copy files to another system.
I actually suggest Tom's boot disk as a far more featureful disk for
this kinda of thing, and it has bash.
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