Josh Robinson wrote:
Maybe you have one of the woody intaller CD's, boot off the first one, and when prompted type rescue root=/dev/hdxX <------ replace with your root partition, probably hda1.thanks: how do i know which is my root partition? (i can't remember which is which of my various partitions - i can't remember if the first was the root or the swap. is there a way of finding out?)
When you boot from the CD, you might be given an option to just boot to the shell prompt (I'm new to Debian, but I know the Slackware CD works that way...). If so, then once you're at the prompt, you can run "cfdisk /dev/hda" and it'll show you your partitions.
-Anthony http://nodivisions.com/