Well, you know already that you should never, ever be without a rescue
disk.
That said, just start and install in and use ALT-F2 (or F3, or F4) to go
to another terminal window. You should be able to patch up things from
there.
(At least this trick works with RedHat; I assume it will with Mandrake
as well.)
You're in a sorta "funny" environment, but you can probably stumble
around ok there.
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| Mandrake Helios. This morning I did something really dumb. I had the
| following (part of the partitions):
|
| /dev/hdb7 / ext2 defaults
| /dev/hdc10 /Venus ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
| /dev/hdc11 /programs ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
|
| where Venus was an older RH installation. I deleted everything on
| /dev/hdc10 and moved all of the files on /program to /dev/hdc10 and then
| renamed the two mount points in /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab.
|
| Unfortunately when I attempt to reboot into Helios the boot hangs on:
|
| Setting /boot/System.map to the current running kernel
|
| until I hit CTRL-C, at which point the boot moves on to:
|
| Booting other file systems
|
| where it hangs completly until the three finger salute.
|
| Using Explore2fs I find that mtab is now empty and mtab~ has the old file
| mount point information.
|
| I have a floppy boot disk, but not a rescue disk.
|
| Help!!!!!
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