Re: How can sarge survive a Windows reinstall?
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:17:44PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:24:44PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 04:37:51PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:33:23AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > >
> > > 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]
> >
> > Thanks. Colin. That message will saved me a lot of futile tries.
> >
> > Now I have two questions. First, an earlier one,
> >
> > How do I make a sarge boot floppy? I don't think I had that option
> > when I originally installed sarge long long ago.
Sorry, I was tired last night ans didn't give a very detailed post.
> I managed to use mkboot to make a boot floppy.
After installing lilo, but not running it.
> Unfortunately. it doesn't work.
> I gather from the kernel panic that it can't read my root partition.
The exact messages are:
VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or unknown-block(3,3)
P;lease append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,3)
I cpresumed, without knowing for sure, that "303" meant my root partition
/dev/hda3. Specifying
linux root=/dev/hda3
on the boot: line didn't help.
> However, the root partition is perfectly readable when I boot form the MBR
> on my hard disk.
>
> This is ridiculous. Is it really impossible boot a sarge system after the MBR
> has been clobbered -- without a complete reinstall?
Sorry for the angry language. I still haven't clobbered my MBR, haven't
reinstalled Windows, but have spent several days trying to make sure it will
go OK. And, as I said yesterday,
> Everything I've tried so far has failed.
>
-- hendrik
>
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