> I was just finished ftping a file to get Mosaic running when, as root, I > issued this command from my /bin directory: mv lib* /temp. > ... this seems to have erased my filesystem and commands (as may > already be obvious to some of you.) > Now my system hangs during boot. I can't seem to recover with my disaster > disk. The disaster disk fails giving me the Loading Linux ... and then > "Boot failed" error.
I was able to recover from a similar disaster (I messed up the shared library configuration a good one) by going back to the initial install procedure I used to put Linux on the machine. In this case I started it up from DOS using the loadlin stuff. When I got into the installation procedure, I skipped past initializing the disk partition stuff and popped open an alternate console using the control alt digit stuff. When I got there, there was a good RAM-based Unix in control and my hard disk partition was mounted on something like /install or something like that. In short, I was able to UNDO the bad things I had done to the shared library configuration using the tools on the RAM-disk based Linux that was there for the installation procedure. Maybe you can use something like this? -- Charles B. (Ben) Cranston mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wam.umd.edu/~zben
