My potato linux partiton won't boot - I assume it was damaged by a series of power outages. I initially got a "crc checksum" error upon booting.
/boot is on /dev/hda2 & / is /dev/hda5. When I use the debian boot floppy ( "rescue root=/dev/hda5" ) I get the usual startup messages, then: VFS: mounted root ( ext2 filesystem ) readonly Freeing unused kernel memory: 140K freed after the above the computer just seems to freeze. No more display messages, no response to the keyboard. I can get a shell by adding "init=/bin/sash" to above boot options, but I get #11 kills on any commands not built into the sash shell. If I use the boot disk, then the root disk; I can use the install menu's mount pre-initialized partions to mount my partitions. But I get seg faults when I try to compile a kernel or run lilo (including it's chroot option). I'd like to get this system bootable again because I spent a good deal of time tweaking & configuring to my hardware. Where should I go from here? jon
