Hi Brad,
I dont know if am able to boot into the my Hard disk's linux partition.
When I Use the installation CD and choose expert mode, then I get a "#"
prompt. I am unable to mount the hard disk partition. May be I was trying a
wrong command. Can anyone help.?
This is what I used in trying to mount my hard disk partition:
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /rescue
PS: I have created a directory called /rescue - so, thats not a problem.
Raj,
-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Bonkoski [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 1:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Lost bootable floppy disk....
On many RedHat and RedHat dirvitive systems there is a utility included
called
"mkbootdisk" If you are still able to boot into your Linux partition then
you
should be able to utilize that utility and make it work.
If you cannot boot into your Linux partition, LILO problems perhaps, then
use a
standard boot image that can be gotten from Any Linux distro's website and
can
be written with rawrite in MSDOS, then when the prompt comes up type mount
root=/dev/hda1 (or whatever your root partition is)
HTH
-Brad
Rajaram wrote:
> Hi again.,
> I tired the rawrite in DOSUTILS but its asking the source. Actually
> the source is in one of the partitions that I cannnot access in windows
or
> DOS. SO, I pointed at the boot.img file in the \images directory of the
> RED-HAt cd1. It created the Boot image. When I tried to boot from the
newly
> created floppy, I get the same installation message screen. I guess I
need
> the boot images that are there on one of my drives.
> How can I solve this catch 22 situ?
>
> Thax,
> Rajaram.
>
> Hi, Rajaram,
> Do you have MSDOS operating system? If you do,
> you can boot to MSDOS and put your CD into the CD-ROM.
> then:
> cd dosutils
> rawrite
> that's all. It will guide you how to make your boot disk.
> Good luck.
>
> At 2001-04-24 09:32:00 you wrote:
> >When I boot from the CD the same install screen comes up. When I choose
> >expert option , just a # prompt shows up and i am unable to access my
> >previous file system. How can I create the bootable disk from the prompt
> >that I get at the # prompt?
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Paul Anderson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 8:43 AM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: Lost bootable floppy disk....
> >
> >You can boot from the CD just like you would a floppy.
> >
> >Paul Anderson
> >
> >Rajaram wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> this morning, I lost a bootable floppy disk. What should I do?
Please
> >help. I dont want to do a Re-Install.
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> Raj.
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