At 09:58 PM 7/2/00 +0530, you wrote:
>It's even more badly screwed than I thought ....
>
>I tried to boot using my bootdisk with vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5
>
>It mounted hda5 read only, and the damned kernel is 2.2.14.5BOOT
>for god's sake. Why was the damned boot kernel installed in the
>first place???
>
>Also, I was not able to mount any of my 'doze partitions - they
>didn't even show up in fstab. I think I ought to create some entries
>using mknod in this case - but with the blasted partition mounted
>RO, I can't do that!!!
you can run linuxconf to add windoze partition which can be mounted later.
Or just enter the appropriate entries in the fstab yourself. You can then
mount windoze partition as RW.
------Jayant
>Help, _please_, I'm screwed badly I think. Maybe I ought to try
>accessing hda5 using explore2fs or nemo ... I'll download that at the
>office and bring it across :)
>
>-suresh
>
>
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