Re: is it possible to use wheezy CD to rescue stretch

2019-01-09 Thread songbird
Long Wind wrote: ... > but initrd on CD is intended for install, not for my purpose > no luck, i may have to find other way can you download and create a USB stick with the relevant netinst image on it? that has a rescue aspect which should be compatible. songbird

Re: is it possible to use wheezy CD to rescue stretch

2019-01-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/01/2019 à 01:21, Long Wind a écrit : Thanks, i browse Help of wheezy CD, i don't know what rescue it can do its advanced option allows you to specify boot option before boot,vmlinuz, initrd, root=/dev/sda2 ... (my stretch is installed at sda2) but initrd on CD is intended for install, not

Re: is it possible to use wheezy CD to rescue stretch

2019-01-09 Thread Long Wind
Thanks, i browse Help of wheezy CD, i don't know what rescue it can do its advanced option allows you to specify boot option before boot,vmlinuz, initrd, root=/dev/sda2 ... (my stretch is installed at sda2) but initrd on CD is intended for install, not for my purpose no luck, i may have to find ot

Re: is it possible to use wheezy CD to rescue stretch

2019-01-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 09/01/2019 à 23:26, Long Wind a écrit : i have wheezy CD, it has rescue option, is it possible to use it to boot stretch? Not always. Wheezy's kernel and e2fsprogs tools do not support newer ext4 features such as csum_metadata which are enabled by default on ext4 filesystems created by St

Re: is it possible to use wheezy CD to rescue stretch

2019-01-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 10:26:51PM +, Long Wind wrote: >i have stretch, but can't boot it, i think its grub is bad, i want to boot >into it so that i can run grub-install to fix it. >i have wheezy CD, it has rescue option, is it possible to use it to boot >stretch? in early Debi