Re: How can sarge survive a Windows reinstall?
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:33:23AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:51:24AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:03:44PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > > Yes, the netinstall is fine, as is anything else that has a kernel
> > > which will accept a root= parameter.
> >
> > Just for a lark I tried to use the rescue pricedure you mentioned *before*
> > I installed Windows, and glad I did. I booted the CD labelled
> > debian testing netinstall 20050201
> > which my son recently used to install Debian on his machine.
> >
> > Evidently I still don't understand something, because when I entered
> > rescue root=/dev/hda3
> > at the boot: prompt, I was told:
> > Could not find kernel image: rescue
> >
> > Do I need to specify something other than "rescue" on Debian installers?
> > Maybe Debian is different from Libranet? Or do I need the first CD
> > of the thirteen-odd CD installer?
>
> You only need one CD; the 1MB kernel image is all that gets used. I
> don't know, maybe it is called "rescdsk" or something .. pressing the
> F1 through F8 keys should tell you all about it.
sarge does not have a rescue mode. I've written one, but it's still a
bit experimental and came too late for sarge.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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