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Re: HELP! How to mount hard drive from rescue disk!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (UNIXMAN)
Fri Nov 27 21:04:40 1998
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 21:14:20 -0500 (EST)
From: UNIXMAN <jzygmont@alpha.confederationc.on.ca>
To: Leston Buell <leston@csi.com>, redhat-list <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.981127203842.29265A-100000@alpha.confederationc.on.ca>
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woops, not the boot prompt, I mean the other one. You know, the one when
the disk boots up and gives you the welcome to red hat linux screen.
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, UNIXMAN wrote:
> 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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