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Re: HELP! How to mount hard drive from rescue disk!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (UNIXMAN)
Fri Nov 27 20:29:54 1998
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 20:39:45 -0500 (EST)
From: UNIXMAN <jzygmont@alpha.confederationc.on.ca>
To: Leston Buell <leston@csi.com>
Cc: redhat-list <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <365EDC29.649F5B13@csi.com>
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Hi, I had to do the same thing once. At the boot prompt just type
linux single root=/dev/hda1 initrd=
Hope this helps...
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Leston Buell wrote:
> Hi. I'm unable to boot because of the problem described in the thread
> "HELP!--Won't boot! What's UTMP?". Someone responded to me (thanks,
> Jan!) telling me how and where to create the necessary utmp file.
>
> But i'm using a rescue disk for the very first time, and i can't figure
> out for the life of me how to mount the hard drive (/dev/hda1) that i
> need to access to create this file. The fstab that's loaded from the
> rescue disk only has ram, proc, and floppy. There's a command in
> /usr/bin called "add-to-fstab", but i get a "permission denied" when i
> try to use it.
>
> Could someone tell me how to mount my hard drive in rescue mode? I would
> be most grateful.
>
> --
> Leston Buell
> bulbul@ucla.edu
>
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