Re: boot failure -- checking the boot partition
On Apr 10, 5:20 pm, Andrew Sackville-West
<and...@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 06:12:22AM -0700, Vwaju wrote:
> > Out of the blue, Debian failed to boot.
>
> > I have loaded debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso, and now I would like to
> > mount the boot partition /dev/hda1 and...oops, I can't mount /dev/hda1
> > without root permission, and I can't get root permission without
> > access to hard drive!
>
> > Is there a way out of this fly-bottle?
>
> you shouldn't need the hard drive to get root. I've never done it from
> a debian-live cd, usually using knoppix for this sort of stuff. But,
> check here:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/FAQ#Q.3AWhatistheroot.2BAC8-userpas...
>
> hth
>
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Thanks, Andrew. I belatedly read this FAQ, and I was able to to mount
the boot partition. I just posted the next question about
"diagnostics".
Best, Vwaju
NYC
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