[NTLUG:Discuss] Mandrake 9.0 rescue

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 15:00:17 -0400, falconjetflyer wrote:

> I had several hardware failures and ended up replacing my MB, CPU and Floppy drive.   
> I have a goofy system.  
> My Mandrake 9.0 if on hdb1 and my boot disk was a casualty of the crash.  My back up boot disk comes back unbootable.  
> How can I boot into the system.    
> I do have Mandrake 8.1 on hda5 with a good boot disk.   
> Can I use the MD 8.1 boot floppy and adjust the boot device to access MD9.0?   The kernel is different.
> Any help.
> 

for general linux problems like this ( not mandrake 9.0 specific ) you
boot with some sort of kernel boot disk and specify the root partition.
The kernel will load off of the boot disk and then mount your root partion
and continue from there.

so... assuming you have a boot floopy that pauses and lets you specify
boot up parmaters, supply root=/dev/hdb1 and you should load that
partition when it comes time to mount your root partition.

jack