On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 10:34:04PM +0200, Philip Lehman wrote: [ snip ] > I'm desperate because the same happens when I boot from a rescue > disk. What can I do about that? Any help will definetly be very > much appreciated... Boot from the rescue disk (and root disk if you use potato) as if you are going to do a new install. In other words, do NOT specify a "root=/dev/hdn" line at the syslinux prompt. As soon as you see the initial setup screen, hit alt-f2 and then enter to open the second VC. You may now issue e2fsck commands as necessary. Good luck! -- Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7
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