Today I am finally awake enough to look at the system to see what I can
find.
AS I previously mentioned I did the YOU online update and the system
refused to re-boot, giving me a text mode GRUB prompt rather than the
normal Graphical boot menu.
I tried booting with the first install disk, and selecting rescue
system. That sets me up in a small system all on a ram disk.
I tried doing a "df" and found only that ramdisk.
I then ran fdisk, and discovered that I have two Linux partitions, One
at /dev/hda1 and a big one at /dev/hda6
I made a directory at /mnt on the ramdisk, and mounted the first one.
It also has a set of "/" directories the biggest being /dev
There is a /boot directory which has a vmlinuz file pointing to what
looks like a kernel
I exited the rescue system, and restarted the machine, at the grub
prompt I tried giving the kernel command as
kernel /dev/hda1/boot/vmlinuz
and I got an error that it cannot read the directory.
while in the rescue system sitting in the /mnt/test//boot directory I
did try typing mkinitrd, but got an error that there was no need to make
initrd on /
I am a little nervous about trying the chroot that someone suggested, in
case it leaves me outside the system. After I can down to where the
system is downstairs I got a panic notion that perhaps I should have
unmounted the /dev/hda1 system before I did a halt on the rescue CD in
case it did not unmount everything automatically?
One of the troubles I am having is that the computer has chugged along
for a year without a burp, and so I have gotten both complacent, and out
of practice at looking at the command line tools.
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Charles MacDonald Stittsville Ontario
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