RE: Linux Boot Floppy Went Bad on W2K-Linux Dual Boot

Forrest,

Thank you for your reply. I tried df but the file system was not mounted. df
yields:

/
/proc
/dev/pts
/mnt/source
/mnt/runtime

I think I should give more history. The answer to my original question is to
put the CD in and type 'linux rescue' instead of creating a new boot disk.
I'm happy to leave it at that.

After reading what follows, it's probably a hopeless case and I should
reinstall the operating system on a new hard disk <sigh>.

1. The original hard drive began to intermittently fail, so I copied its
contents to another hard drive, hoping that the Linux boot disk would boot
to the new drive because I hoped it would look for the file redhat.img. No
such luck! It appears the boot disk is actually looking for a unique
identifier for the original drive.

2. I then put the original drive back but it failed every time I booted
Linux or Windows. The drive was just plain unreadable.

3. Recently, the drive began to work again when I booted Windows, so I
decided to try to boot Linux but the Linux boot disk died!

4. Having the original drive back in, and seeing the drive work on Win2K, I
now boot from the Linux CD and try the 'linux rescue' operation. df shows
that the original file system has not been mounted.

My guess is that I need to mount the disk manually, doubting that the rescue
operation scans all hard drives (there are 6 of them on this machine and
only 1 has the Linux files on it.) So, I'm going to read about the mounting
drives now...

Don't worry if this is too hopeless to fix.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Taylor, ForrestX
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 1:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Linux Boot Floppy Went Bad on W2K-Linux Dual Boot


Richard Z. Ward wrote:
> Forrest,
>
> Thank you for replying. Booting from the CD and typing 'linux rescue'
> appears to get me somewhere, but I need to do some reading to discover
what
> to do next.
>
> I get the
>
> sh-2.04#
>
> command prompt and clearly I'm not looking at my file system. I've looked
on
> the Web for instructions for what to do next -- should I try to mount the
> old file system somehow? should I use this command prompt to create a new
> boot disk?
>
> Could you direct me to a page with rescue instructions? The ones I've
found
> so far don't talk about this.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Richard

First of all, did it say that it was mounting your filesystems?  Try
`df` to see what you have mounted.  Your Linux partitions should be
mounted in /mnt/sysimage.  Try `chroot /mnt/sysimage` to see if you can
'change root' to your Linux system.  If you can, you should be able to
see all of your Linux files, and use mkbootdisk to create a new bootdisk.

Let me know if you can chroot, and we'll go from there.

Forrest
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