I've had occasions on my own system (SuSE), and at Linux installfests to boot from the CD. If I recall, I've done this in SuSE, Mandrake and Red Hat. One of the things you can do, once the installer starts, you can use one of the virtual terminals (eg. f2 or f3) to get a shell active in the ramdisk kernel, and make corrections as Brian indicates below.
On 6 Mar 2002 at 15:38, Bill Mullen wrote: > On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Brian Chabot wrote: > > > Ok, I have a (seemingly) simple question... > > > > What would you all reccommend for a Linux rescue CD? In the past I've > > always used a Tom's RTBT floppy for rescuing Linux boxen, but in this > > age of fewer computers having floppy drives.... > > > > So... Any suggestions? > > I use the first (Install) CD from Mandrake 8.1. Type F1 to get a LILO > prompt, then "rescue". This boots a ramdisk-based system which > conveniently locates your root partition, mounts it as /mnt, and mounts > whichever partitions it can locate in your fstab under that (/usr becomes > /mnt/usr, etc.). If you're doing this, as so often happens, because of a > trashed MBR, you can chroot /mnt and re-run LILO, and you're all set. > > > -- > > Bill Mullen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mar 6, 2002 > > > ***************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > ***************************************************************** Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
