Re: Problem Booting After Install

["Scott MacMaster" <me@scottmacmaster.com>]

I tried typing that command at the boot prompt.  However, I received an
error message.

Could not find kernal image: rescue

Any other thoughts?


Thanks,
Scott MacMaster

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary L. Dolan" <fred1@inebraska.com>
To: "Scott MacMaster" <me@scottmacmaster.com>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install


>   My apologies for coming in late to this thread. When I had lots of
>   time I used to experiment with various installations, and I vaguely
>   remember doing the following (if this has been suggested and tried,
>   once again my only excuse is late arrival). I used to use a boot disk
>   always; when the boot: prompt came up, if you pressed "Enter" you
>   would go into the installation dequence. If you typed something like
>   "rescue root=/dev/hdxx" (depending on where you initially installed
>   debian initially), it would boot normally. In the past year or so I've
>   used grub exclusively (both on a disk and installed on a hard drive)
>   so I've forgotten the details of my former practice. Good luck.
> -- 
> Gary Dolan
> Debian GNU/Linux , Kernel 2.5.10
> FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE
> OpenBSD 3.2