I messed up my hard-disk installation due to stupid impatience trying to upgrade from Debian 1.2 to Debian 1.3. Now, I am trying unsuccessfully to get in with a rescue disk, and repair the damage.
I am using resc1440.bin and root.bin from ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/Debian-1.3/disks-i386/1997-05-30/ I also have drv1440.bin, but I don't understand what to do with it for rescue purposes. I have plenty of memory, so lmemroot.bin shouldn't be relevant. I wrote 3 diskettes containing resc1440.bin, root.bin, drv1440.bin on another Linux system, using "dd". I have booted from resc1440.bin: I have only one diskette drive. At the boot prompt, I give the command rescue root=/dev/fd0 If I leave resc1440.bin in the drive (I have an impression that resc1440.bin is supposed to contain a root, but I'm not sure of this), the boot hangs with the final messages: VFS: Mounted root (msdos file system) readonly. Unable to open an initial console. If I replace resc1440.bin by root.bin when prompted to load a root disk, the boot hangs with the final message: Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00 If I try to mount root on the hard disk with rescue root=/dev/hda2 I get the message about the initial console. The debug option to the boot doesn't appear to give any more useful messages. Thanks for any advice you can give. Mike O'Donnell -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
