Re: emergency shutdown?
Okay, so the potato rescue disk seems to kick in alright, at the boot
prompt I type 'rescue root=/dev/hda1'.
I get a whole string messages as it locates some things and fails to
find others - seems alright to me - but ends with the line 'Kernel
panic: VFS: Unable to mount root on fs 03:01' at which point nothing
more happens!
Mark Janssen wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:11:49PM +0000, Simon R Tod wrote:
> > That should be perfectly straightforward... but while a floppy has
> > 1457664 bytes on it, rescue.bin is 1474560 bytes, so won't fit! The
> > rescue.bin file on http://..../images-1.20/ will fit on a standard
> > floopy, but how does this differ from the /images-1.44/ version?
>
> The rescue.bin file WILL fit on a floppy, the size you specify is the
> empty space on a floppy after you created a filesystem on it (overhead)
> When you rawrite / dd the rescue.bin image to a floppy it overwrites the
> filesystem, and it WILL fit. Just boot from floppy then.
>
> >From DOS/WIN32
> rawrite rescue.bin a:
>
> >From Unix/Linux
> dd if=rescue.bin of=/dev/fd0
>
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