Re: A180C Freeze at Rescue Floppy
On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Joel Soete wrote:
yes you have a shell (a small one) into the install menu: at the first
step
(iirc when it proposed you to format your disk), you can browse the
menu
with arrow key [up/down] until something like 'Escape to shell'; there
press
enter.
I looked for it, but didn't see it - but that was because there is no
indication that there is anything on the menus underneath the last
entry. Once I started scrolling.... whee, all sorts of things showed
up.
When I got into the shell, I tried:
chroot /target /bin/bash
...and it works well. However, I noticed several things:
My (second) Linux partitioned drive is unrecognized....
I also have all of the disks written down and their designations, etc.
- specifically, I have two SCSI chains and four (at least) devices on
them, and their SCSI ids. However, I still can't correlate /dev/sda to
8/16/5.5 for example - and to top that off, it would appear that my
"/dev/sda" doesn't exist in the list of bootable disks given by the
boot search option.
What am I missing? Does the boot disk have to be on a specific SCSI
chain? Every bootable disk listed by the Boot Sequnece is on 8/16: I
don't think this configured Linux I'm in is on that chain.
As a side point, it doesn't seem that a lot of things got installed
into the target base system: curl, wget, ncftp, ftp, lynx - all are
missing from /target.
I used apt-get to get them - it works just like the RPM version ;-)
This is nice... now if it would just boot :-)
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