Re: How can sarge survive a Windows reinstall?
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:30:15PM +0100, Macskasi Csaba wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 11:51:24 -0500, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@pooq.com> wrote:
>
> >On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:03:44PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> >>On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:18:44PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:10:59AM +1100, David Pastern wrote:
> >>> > Hendrik,
> >>> >
> >>> > My suggestion is to boot off Installer disk #1,
> >>>
> >>> Will the netinstall disk do? Or does it have to be disk #1 of the
> >>full
> >>> sarge CD distribution?
> >>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?
>
> There is no option called "rescue". Pressing tab twice should give you a
> list of all possibilities.
I tried tabbing, but no list of options appeared.
Now I just got another message, which told me that sarge has no rescue mode.
So I guess I'm back to an earlier question: how do I make a boot floppy?
-- hendrik
>
> Csaba
>
> >
> >-- hendrik
> >
> >>
> >>> > and rather than start an
> >>> > install, type:
> >>> >
> >>> > rescue root=/dev/hd*
> >>> >
> >>> > where * of course is where your kernel resides. Shouldn't matter
> >>which
> >>> > one. Here is a bit more information:
> >>> >
> >>> > http://forum.libranet.com/viewtopic.php?t=5485
> >>The kernel is on the cd, root= specifies the root partition, which
> >>needs to have /etc/, /bin/, etc (pun intended).
> >
> >-- hendrik
> >
> >
>
>
>
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