Re: Partitionless rescue booting
Rob Weir [debian-user] <13/11/02 18:57 +1100>:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:47:30PM -0000, vdemart@supereva.it wrote:
> >
> > I have the 2 official debian 3.0 installation CDs with the rescue
> > stuff. I wonder if it's possible to boot with them without defining &
> > mounting a real hd partition but using only the memory (I've 256 MB of
> > memory). I didn't find any of the kind in the documentation in the
> > CDs. If it is possible, a straightforward explanation about how to.
>
> You can certainly boot from the CDs without a HD. You want to install
> into a RAM disk? That seems kind of pointless, but it can be done.
> Maybe what you really want is Knoppix. I imagine the homepage is
> http://knoppix.org/, but I'm not sure.
>
> -rob
Well Rob, It happened to me that booting from CD and giving the
root=/dev/hda1 option my system was unable to start because of
corrupted files/directories. Using a RedHat 7.2 CD booting into a RAM
Disk a could mount my /dev/hda1 partition, fix the faulty files,
chroot to it, run lilo, and boot my Debian 3.0 again...
Vittorio
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