Gidday Anguo You couldn't download one of those linux on a floppy distro's and boot from that could you? (Tomsboot?) I'm only guessing here. Then you could make the changes you need to and reboot. Also I've read somewhere about a command something like chroot where you can (I think) change from one running kernel to another. Regards Max
Anguo asked on Friday, November 23, 2001 6:53 PM for help booting into linux > Ouch! > I just saw this: > http://www.linux.com/howto/LILO-crash-rescue-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.4 > "You MUST make emergency boot disk from time to time and whenever you make > changes to the partition. Insert a blank floppy" > which, of course, I didn't do... so the partition table on the boot floppy > doens't correspond to the existing one. There isn't much change though.. > just one more partition cut out of the empty remaining space on the hard > disk... > > What now? > > ----- Original Message ----- > �H���: Anguo > I dual boot win98 + Mandrake 8.1 > > Questions: > 1- How can I use the boot disk to boot into the console mode rather than the > graphical login? > > Problem: > KDE or any other window manager won't start anymore. The graphic login only > has two options: previous and failsafe, neither of which get anything > started. There are quite a few error messages that appear during the machine > booting sequence. > I'd like to see what they are so that I can solve (with your precious help) > whatever problem there is. > > I recently added a new FAT32 partition using diskdrake and then formated it > under win98. I needed the new partitions so that I could install office2000. > (I unfortunately still need that because of the lacking chinese support > under linux - I still haven't been able to get it working properly). I think > part of the problem is related to this (something about too many partitions > being mounted...). > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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