Re: deleted /boot files

2005-01-04 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Friday, 31 December 2004, you wrote: are there suggestions on how to get the fa311 netgear nic working w/ 2.2.20-compact? sounds like you need to tell it to load the tulip driver for fa311 and than tell i upgrade the kernel and it'd run lilo/grub and you're back in biz i tried to load

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-31 Thread Harland Christofferson
sounds like raid is working ?? .. - in the future, do NOT copy files from one disk to another ( that is not how raid mirroring works ) are there suggestions on how to get the fa311 netgear nic working w/ 2.2.20-compact? sounds like you need to tell it to load the tulip driver

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-31 Thread Adam Aube
Harland Christofferson wrote: Before I created this mess, I was running the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. I tried the rescue.bin and root.bin floppies from the Debian site but I was not able to boot w/ them. I was able to boot w/ the 2.2. 20-compact floppies however. Now, using 2.2.20-compact, I

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-29 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] com wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: what i did try was Alan's suggestion of the Debian rescue disk. I have never used it in a capacity such as this. I used the 2.2.20- compact rescue, root, driver-1 and

deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
while getting ready to build a raid 1 array, i accidentally deleted the /boot files. the partition is still there however and is still flagged as boot partition. although i have a boot floppy for this machine, i could not retrieve a backup of the /boot partition from another hard disk i have.

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
an update to my saga is that i was able to run lilo. however, when trying to boot, i see: request_module{block-major-3]: root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 303 or 03:03 Please append correct root= boot option Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 my root= option

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Laurent CARON
Harland Christofferson wrote: an update to my saga is that i was able to run lilo. however, when trying to boot, i see: request_module{block-major-3]: root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 303 or 03:03 Please append correct root= boot option Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 27 December 2004, Laurent CARON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Harland Christofferson wrote: an update to my saga is that i was able to run lilo. however, when trying to boot, i see: request_module{block-major-3]: root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 303 or 03:03 Please

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Harland Christofferson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041227 17:47]: cat /etc/lilo.conf [..] image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only # restricted # alias=1 initrd=/initrd.img You need to symlink boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-k7 to /initrd.img signature.asc Description:

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alexander Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] info wrote: * Harland Christofferson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041227 17:47]: cat /etc/lilo.conf [..] image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only # restricted # alias=1 initrd=/initrd.img You need to

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:59:53PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alexander Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] info wrote: * Harland Christofferson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041227 17:47]: cat /etc/lilo.conf [..] image=/vmlinuz label=Linux

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 27 December 2004, you wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:59:53PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alexander Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] info wrote: * Harland Christofferson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041227 17:47]: cat /etc/lilo.conf [..]

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: while getting ready to build a raid 1 array, i accidentally deleted the /boot files. the partition is still there however and is still flagged as boot partition. although i have a boot floppy for this machine, i could not retrieve a

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:31:49PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: At Monday, 27 December 2004, you wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:59:53PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alexander Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] info wrote: * Harland Christofferson

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
I have never done what I am about to suggest, but try this: 1. copy the whole contents of the directory /lib/modules/xxx/ from the computer where you got your replacement /boot onto the computer that you are trying to get going again. Here 'xxx' represents the kernel version string of the

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: what i did try was Alan's suggestion of the Debian rescue disk. I have never used it in a capacity such as this. I used the 2.2.20- compact rescue, root, driver-1 and driver-2 binaries. I am able to boot from the hard drive (woohoo) but