On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 12:59:34 +0200, David Baron wrote: > (I can always redo the knoppix hd-install which shouldwork with ext3 but > this is starting from scratch. Knoppix CD boot will, presumably let me burn > CDs (main reason I started with it) so I could save certain files, maybe > even the desktop and kmail stuff but I really do not want to start from > scratch.)
Try the grub boot floppy. Described further down in this archive. It boots to almost anything you can possibly boot to. Except your old kernel is deleted and the new one (?) and its initrd faulty. Create it, (see the archive), boot, issue a root (hd0, <tab> select the correct root partition kernel /vml <tab>, resp. kernel /boot/vml <tab> select the kernel you want to boot to, add something like ro root=/dev/hda6 >Enter> initrd /ini <tab>, resp. initrd /boot/ini <tab> select the newly created (or old) initrd boot <Enter> HTH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
