-Ben Hendrik Boom wrote:
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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