[5106] in RedHat Linux List
RE: I killed my box.... :-(
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony Martin)
Tue Nov 19 01:29:08 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 22:19:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Anthony Martin <amartin@engr.csulb.edu>
To: --------------Rob Walker <rob@cisco.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611190447.UAA05027@sj-fte69-sun.cisco.com>
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On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Rob Walker wrote:
> different stages of the install. I found that there is a time where
> the box does a mount of the hard drive by hand, and runs fdisk on it,
> and then umounts it. It does this just before presenting me with one
> choice to use as my root partition. I think if I could mount the root
> partition, I could try some more things on that hard drive. Such as:
> copy the kernel off the disk to a floppy, remove a few files that
> might be causing me to have a full disk??? (fd will not tell me
> anything...)
>
> any other ideas?
In VC2 (Alt-F2) you can cat /proc/mounts and find where the Red Hat
install is mounting your hard disk (if it is) and then just cd wherever
you need to go and do what you want. You will have to type the full paths
to any executables on the drive. If it is not mounted, you can try to
mount it manually.
> rob>can I somehow use ALT-F2 to get to bash to rerun lilo by hand? but it
> rob>does not have a good /etc/lilo.conf file?!?!
If you can mount you drive or if the install does it for you, then you can
do a lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf for example.
> rob>Oh, booting with the 4.0 boot floppy, and using
> rob>linux root=/dev/hda1 (through hda5) does not work, either. I get
> rob>kernel panics because of not finding a fs on the correct device. Do I
> rob>need to try this with the alternate image disk?
Didn't you say you have a SCSI drive? Wouldn't it be /dev/sda1?
> rob>Needless to say, I do not want to upgrade this system, but just want
> rob>to be able to boot it and get it working again, so we can back it up!
If all else fails, you might be able to just plug the drive into another
Linux system (assuming you have another), then try mounting it from that
system, and back it up. Then you can do a fresh install and restore.
All of the above might be useless information, but hopefully it triggers
something useful.
Tony.
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