On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Mike O'Donnell wrote:
>
> 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.
>
You only need the rescue disk. Put it into the drive and boot the system.
When the prompt, boot: appears, simply press enter. You should shortly
find yourself at the first dialogue box of the install script, asking
whether you want a color or monocrome display.
Hope that helps,
Dwarf
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