Hi Paul,
Unfortunately the cd rom is not bootable. I booted from the
floppy and typed rescue at the prompt but none of the available options seem
to be of any help I can list the file systems on each hd but that just
confirms what I already know.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] rescue
> In reply to Patrick's mail, d.d. Sat, 9 Nov 2002 22:37:00 +1100:
>
> Boot from the first setup cd, hit ESC at the graphics screen and type
> "rescue".
> That will boot you into linux. From there you are root and you can fix
> things up.
> Paul
>
> >Hi All,
> > I'M running mandrake 8.2 and have just installed squid and set it
> > up to cache on my second hd. All was going well then the hd
crashed
> > and now the system won't boot it says that sdb5 does not contain
a
> > valid ext2 file system. How do I repair this I have another hd
> > replkacement but the same problem exists. help please
>
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