Re: I blew it bigtime!

[Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>]

Mike Chandler wrote:
> OK, I got into my system using knoppix,
> then I did 
>
> mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1
> chroot /mnt/hdb1
>
> This got me where I needed to be, to reinstall my kernel.
> However, it would not install, there was an error saying
> "usr/sbin/mkinitrd; can't find /dev/fd" and cannot make initrd.
> (something like that...)
> So I tried apt-getting another different kernel, and got the same error.
> Is there hope, or am I doing a reinstall?
> Thanks!

mount -o remount,dev /mnt/hdb1

For some reason, Knoppix mounts partitions nodev by default.

-Roberto Sanchez

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