On Wednesday 18 July 2001 14:16, Randy Kramer wrote:
> civileme,
>
> Wonderful -- thank you! It appears I am back in business with no
> problems.
>
> I plan to archive your instructions on my wiki (initially my private
> wiki, and later on my public wiki, WikiLearn, when it is up and
> running).
>
> A few notes / questions: (The notes are mostly for my records.)
>
> 1. I actually started the install with the intent of running it until
> the partitions were displayed so I could see which was my / partition.
> I could not display the partition table -- I forget exactly what stopped
> me. But, neither did I cause any additional damage, AFAICT.
>
> 2. While following your procedure I followed a trial and error approach
> -- I tried mounting the partition I thought was /, then tried the
> chroot. It worked when I tried /dev/hda4 (which clearly was my /
> partition).
>
> 3. I now know why you suggested cat -- less won't work.
>
> 4. I followed the mke2fs procedure. It gave me what might be some
> useful information, all of which I did not write down. I did note that
> it made superblock backups at 32,768, 98,304, and 163,840.
>
> Q: If this happened again, would it be worth trying the e2fsck -b
> command against one of those superblock backups?
definitely
>
> 5. When I tried the reboot command nothing happened. (I wasn't sure it
> was a command, so when nothing happened after 15 seconds, I rebooted
> manually.) I should have tried shutdown -r now, or maybe /sbin/reboot.
>
> Thanks again! This is wonderful! If you have any problem with me
> putting this post on my twiki or WikiLearn, let me know. In any event,
> the intent would be someday to rewrite as just a factual micro HOWTO, on
> WikiLearn.
What I say here is GPL for information content except that you may not modify
it without clearly identifying any of your modifications of source code.
;-)
Civileme
>
> regards,
> Randy Kramer
>
> civileme wrote:
> > OK boot with the boot CD
> >
> > Hit F1 and typr "rescue" without the quotes
> >
> > when the root prompt for the rescue system comes up
> >
> > # mount /(your / partition's actual disk partiton like /dev/hda6) /mnt
> > # chroot /mnt
> > # mount /usr
> >
> > You now are in root mode and have access to your editors, at least the
> > non-graphic ones.
> >
> > # cat /etc/fstab
> > Either make note of what partition /home2 would be mounted to or make
> > note of the line and fire up emacs with emacs /etc/fstab and comment it
> > out. or do what is said below.
> >
> > # mke2fs (partition where /home2 is mounted)
> >
> > # sync
> > # reboot
> >
> > Take iut your rescue CD and let it boot
