Hello Folks:
I'm desperate -- Previous to this morning I had the install bf24 kernel installed. I read on another list that basically it's intended for the install process only and should be replaced for adequate performance.
So, I took the plunge and installed '2.4.18.img' and ran lilo afterwards. Lilo gave an error on the stanza I added to lilo as per the debian installer instructions: I think it was the 'initrd=/initrd.img' line. I obviously added it to the wrong place.
Anyways, "Murphy's law' conveniently came to be, while I was doing this, I let the sink overflow in the kitchen, and the water was threating to splash over the electric equipment (power bars etc) that runs my 4 workstations. So, because we were tramping through water (electrocution possibility to) I had to throw the circuit breaker that was responsible for these components.
So, to make a long story short, I'm unable to boot into my Woody server, with the newly installed kernel. I tried the rescue disk, but it gives me a kernel panic. I tried the 'shift-tab' sequence at the lilo prompt, and it only gives me one kernel choice -- I can't see the old one.
The messages I'm getting at the kernel are thus;
-root filesytem not mounted -VFS cannot open root device -please append a correct root=boot option -kernel panic
This is way over my head. Is there anything I can do, to mount this box?
I'd rather try to recover it if possible, as I'm not backed up... (I know, I know).
Thanks.
You'll need an installer CD or a Knoppix CD or something similar.
Boot off that CD, and at the prompt, enter something like: linux root=/dev/hda1 single or knoppix root=/dev/hda1 single (with /dev/hda1 being your root partition).
If that gets you in, you should be able to repair your lilo.conf and rerun lilo and reboot back into business.
If that doesn't work, boot into the installation normally, and don't partition/initialize, but then mount the / and /usr partitions. Then shell out (Alt-F2), "chroot /target"; "vi /etc/lilo.conf" and fix; "lilo"; Alt-F1 and choose reboot.
-- Kent
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