Re: I blew it bigtime!
At the knoppix boot command, type "knoppix single"
This will put you into a root shell.
Mount your file systems.
chroot to the root file system.
try to fix it -- good luck :-)
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 07:12, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org
wrote:
> Hey, this oughta get a chuckle out of some of you...
> I have Debian Sid with kernel 2.6.4, self-compiled, working fine untill...
> I decided to recompile the kernel again, changing some stuff around,
> building more stuff into it, and taking more stuff out...
> when I did
> dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.4_custom.2.0_i386.deb
> I got an error at the end, something about couldn't make initrd image, but
> I figured what the heck, it will still boot off the old kernel, since the
> entries were still in /boot/grub/menu.list.
> Wrong!
> I can no longer boot at all, kernel-panic etc, so I am writing this while
> booted to Knoppix.
> I can't see how to use this as a 'recovery disk', cuz everything I try to
> do, requires root access, and Knoppix by default has all accounts locked,
> and no passwords, etc.
> I was gonna try to reinstall my other kernel, but can't.
> I am now hopelessly hosed, please advise!
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