Re: bad error
> See the thread on /etc/fstab or HD crash. I noticed
> you posted a reply
> to that but all that was in it was one of my posts,
> quoted. Were you
> trying to ask this sort of question?
No. that was me at work (i.e. lacking detail)
I solved it in that thread, never previously realizing
that the shell (I have some LSL install CD-ROM of
2.2.16) I needed was after you start the installation
procedure.
It's still odd to me, though. Please correct me if
I'm wrong.
I still have the two good kernels I compiled on the
machine, but until I ran e2fsck all over, they
wouldn't boot, either.
I suppose attempting to boot the bad kernel (which
didn't have support compiled in to read hard drives,
donut!) actually hosed the hard drive, and thus
prevented even the good kernels from working.
Now I have a nice CD-R backup.
It'd be slick to make my own 2.4.18 boot CD
ciao for now
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--- Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:26:40PM -0800, J Q
> Private wrote:
> > How would this be different than the four or five
> > 2.2.(18|19|20) boot floppies I had lying around?
> >
> > They all fail, also.
>
> What exactly do you mean by a "boot floppy", and how
> does it "fail"?
>
> My "boot floppy" is made from resc1440.bin on my
> Debian CD. It boots,
> slightly confusingly, into the installation
> sequence. On the first
> screen (select colour or monochrome) I select "Next"
> straightaway,
> then there's a screen of blurb which I hit return to
> get rid of, then
> I get to the installation menu. I scroll down this
> until I get to the
> "Execute a shell" option, which is off the bottom of
> the menu until I
> do scroll down. This gets me into a single-user root
> shell, so I can
> fsck my hard drive, mount it and poke around on it.
>
> See the thread on /etc/fstab or HD crash. I noticed
> you posted a reply
> to that but all that was in it was one of my posts,
> quoted. Were you
> trying to ask this sort of question?
>
> Pigeon
>
>
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