On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 16:53, Jarrod Major wrote:

> > I never thought I would need a rescue floopy when I could just boot from
> > CD, but I was wrong.  ;-)  lol
> 
> Well, hopefully we won't need to worry about this.

Just in case you do, I've found Toms Root Boot to be a great little tool
(http://www.toms.net/rb/). You could also boot up with the installation
CD in rescue mode, or better yet pop Knoppix into the box and see if it
recognizes and initializes pcmcia. If it works then you know that it is
an issue with SuSE instead of a hardware issue or a conflict with Linux.
Once you have booted with one of these tools you can mount your root
partition with something like
# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/suseinstall
and you can take a look at the logs, tweak config files, etc. If you
need to do any more in depth changes to you can use chroot with
something like 
# chroot /mnt/suseinstall
Then it will be like using your installed system, you can remove
packages, update lilo or whatever.

Good luck,

Jesse

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