Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:02:45PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
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> Well, I guess I'll have to go back to the drawing board to
> figure out how to make a usable boot floppy ... or perhaps a
> boot CD ... I really don't care which one I have, as long as
> I have _some_ source for a boot record besides my hard disk.
try Timo's rescue CD (debian based):
http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/download.html
If I'm not mistaken his bootimage uses initrd, and does some
autodetection of drives. If the autodetection fails, it's possible to
get a shell early in the boot process and load the needed scsi
modules. I've never done that so I don't really know how it works,
but I expect "modprobe driver-for-your-scsi-card" would suffice.
> I guess I'm going to have to gain the knowledge necessary for
> using initrd during the process of building a boot disk/CD,
> since mkboot and the yard suite are currently at the limits
> of my knowledge.
>
> Without my Linux box working for more than a few minutes
> at a time, I have at best intermittent internet access, so
> could someone point me to a step-by-step cookbook that
> describes how to make a bootable floppy or CD, when initrd is
> needed to load added SCSI modules? Also, something that
> tells me how to find out which SCSI modules I need, and which
> of these are and aren't compiled into my kernel would also be
> useful. I have the standard, unmodified 2.4.20-686-smp kernel,
> by the way.
Look in /boot/config-2.4.20-686-smp, it lists all the config params
used to compile that kernel. Look for scsi-generic and scsi-disk and
the apropriate module for your scsi card.
--
groetjes, carel
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