On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 11:52:44 -0800, Michael Kevin O'Brien wrote: > How does one boot from the rescue disk? I stick the rescue disk in the > drive, turn on the machine. At the rescue prompt: > > I'm unable to switch to vc2. > > rescue root=/dev/fd0 (w/ rescue floppy still in drive) > does some work; get to a "VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER"
Have you tried just pressing enter, as with the initial install? > So, is there a way to actually get to a login shell using only the rescue > disk??? If you follow the process for initial installation up to the point of getting the main menu (with the partition etc. options), VC 2 should be able to give you a shell. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan