Re: Help! Major crash in Hamm upgrade!

[Ossama Othman <othman@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu>]

Hi,

Use the Debian Rescue disk to boot your system but mount your existing
root partition as the root instead of allowing the rescue disk to mount a
ram disk as root.  For example, when presented with the "boot:" prompt
from the rescue disk type:

	linux root=/dev/hda1

Substitute whatever your root partition is.  This causes your system to
boot with the kernel on the rescue floppy but still uses your hard drive's 
root file system, meaning that you can easily reconfigure if you need to.
Instead of manually configuring the lilo.conf file, try using liloconfig
instead.  Liloconfig is fairly interactive and it helps to make sure that
your lilo.conf file is configured properly.

-Ossama

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Ossama Othman <othman@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu>

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