Hi. I've been using DragonFlyBSD for years and I like a lot (the system,
pkgsrc and the community) but I can't to use your OS in something
important for me. My Xen VPS.
I'm a sysadmin and I can't code the Xen support because my lack of
knowledge. I would like know if anyone has interest in
hi there
xen is dominant in vps's but its hardly superior. ibm and redhat have both
abandoned leaving it as a kernel fork with limited major developers, it whilst
kvm has been merged in to the mainline linux kernel.
virtio has also been adopted by virtualbox, so virtio drivers would cover two
On 06/26/2011 11:18 PM, Dean Hamstead wrote:
hi there
xen is dominant in vps's but its hardly superior. ibm and redhat have both
abandoned leaving it as a kernel fork with limited major developers, it whilst
kvm has been merged in to the mainline linux kernel.
Xen is superior for VPS
A friend gave me an Ubuntu laptop which I proceeded to install a few programs
on and then hose. It came with a user a which I decided to change
to phma. I renamed the home directory, edited /etc/passwd and /etc/group,
and rebooted. I had forgotten to edit /etc/shadow, so I can't log in. It's
To keep it short, no. There might be some ext4 fs that it might be able
to mount (with specific inode size, lacking all sorts of ext4 features,
etc), but in the general case it's not possible.
I'd recommend you grab your ubuntu CD, start the live system and fix it
from there.
Cheers,
Alex
On
At the grub prompt hit esc to get the grub menu. Then press the e key to edit
the first entry. Add a 1 to the end of the line. Press enter to save the line
then press b to boot.
That will drop you into run-level 1 aka single user mode, with root access.
You should be able to fix things from
