Thanks for the reply. I was beginning to think that there was no one out
there.
Actually, I dropped one back to v6.1 for the rescue disk. Unfortunately I
can't out just what I have to fix.
At 03:00 PM 03/27/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
I'm not too sure what's funny. I use one partition for production and the
other for playing with new things.
>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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