Re: I blew it bigtime!
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 02:47 pm, David Baron wrote:
Thanks, I am there, now it seems I have a larger problem, I cannot install ANY
kernel, I've tried several, they all fail with an error about /dev/fd
doesn't exist, and initrd didn't make.
I am LOST.
:(
> 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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