Re: emergency shutdown?
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:49:41AM +0000, Simon R Tod wrote:
| If I just type 'rescue' at the boot prompt I get the slightly different
| error message 'Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00', so
| this doesn't provide me with the chance to run fdisk, or anything else.
Can you boot to the installer? Get both rescue.bin and root.bin or a
cd. When the installer's welcome screen appears switch to vt 2 and
you'll have a root console. From there you can run e2fsck (I hope,
you can certainly run 'fdisk' and 'mount').
HTH,
-D
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