MORE repairing corrupted kernel to boot

2000-12-03 Thread lists
. I'd like to not reformat the partition if I don't have to. ) On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Sebastiaan wrote: > Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 22:11:11 +0100 (CET) > From: Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re

Re: repairing corrupted kernel to boot

2000-12-02 Thread Sebastiaan
Hmm, strange. Maybe you should try to boot a rescue floppy and do the job from there. I do not have experience yet with Debian rescue disks, but you can also go to redhat and download the bootdisk and the rescue disk. After you have booted, you can mount whatever you want and fix it (or do a chroot

repairing corrupted kernel to boot

2000-12-02 Thread lists
My potato linux partiton won't boot - I assume it was damaged by a series of power outages. I initially got a "crc checksum" error upon booting. /boot is on /dev/hda2 & / is /dev/hda5. When I use the debian boot floppy ( "rescue root=/dev/hda5" ) I get the usual startup messages, then: VFS: m