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

Richard Z. Ward wrote:
> Forrest,
> 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...

I think that versions after Red Hat Linux 7.1 mounts your partitions 
automatically using linux rescue.  Try to mount your partition manually. 
  Do you know where it is located (e.g., /dev/hda5)?  If you know where 
it is, try:

mkdir /mnt/sysimage
mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/sysimage  (where hda5 is the real partition).

If you don't know where it is located, try `fdisk -l` or `fdisk -l 
/dev/hda(hdb, etc).

IIRC, you said that the linux OS was in a file on a FAT32 partition, 
correct?  If so, you probably need to mount the fat32 partition that 
contains the Red Hat installation, and then mount the linux image.


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

It is worth a try.

> Richard