Re: I screwed up and cannot boot

2000-03-12 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 11:44:01PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 03:45:25AM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > > Well, I'm getting there. Yes, the new rescue and boot disks helped. I was > > able to mount the partitions, run fsck on them (not while mounted, mind > > yo

Re: I screwed up and cannot boot

2000-03-12 Thread kmself
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 03:45:25AM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > At 07:10 PM 3/11/00 +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > > > Reinstall time? I have /home on a separate partition. > > > >Maybe not. I ran into a similar situation (bad superblock errors) > >and found that it was because my original resc

Re: I screwed up and cannot boot

2000-03-11 Thread David J. Kanter
At 07:10 PM 3/11/00 +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > Reinstall time? I have /home on a separate partition. Maybe not. I ran into a similar situation (bad superblock errors) and found that it was because my original rescue disk set couldn't mount the partitions. It was solved when I downloaded an

Re: I screwed up and cannot boot

2000-03-11 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 10:15:42AM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > At 01:25 AM 3/11/00 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >Boot from whatever rescue disk you have, mount your Linux partition(s) > >(you may want to fsck them first), and run LILO with the -C option to > >specify a config file: > >

Re: I screwed up and cannot boot

2000-03-11 Thread David J. Kanter
At 01:25 AM 3/11/00 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Boot from whatever rescue disk you have, mount your Linux partition(s) (you may want to fsck them first), and run LILO with the -C option to specify a config file: Still problems. I booted off the rescue disk, and then tried to mount some

Re: I screwed up and cannot boot

2000-03-11 Thread kmself
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 06:01:37PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > I moved some partitions around and now cannot boot Debian. > > Previously, I had three partitions dedicated to Mandrake (/dev/hda6-8), but > deleted them so I could move my Debian partitions (/dev/hda9-13) to the old > Mandrake p