On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 11:52:44AM -0800, Michael Kevin O'Brien wrote: > > How does one boot from the rescue disk? I stick the rescue disk in the drive, > turn on the machine. At the rescue prompt: > > I'm unable to switch to vc2. > > rescue root=/dev/fd0 (w/ rescue floppy still in drive) > does some work; get to a "VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER" > > just pressing enter (leaving the rescue floppy in the drive): > > Unable to open an initial console. > > putting in a disk made with make zDisk: > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00 > > So, is there a way to actually get to a login shell using only the rescue > disk??? Are you using the potato rescue floppy? If so, then the answer is no. You need to insert the root floppy (made from root.bin, located in the same directory on the servers as rescue.bin) when it prompts you as above. A disk made with make zDisk will probably not work, since you need a root filesystem, not just a kernel (the rescue floppy already contins a kernel, to get that far...) -- finger for GPG public key.
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