[H-GEN] whee!

[Daehenoc]

On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Craig Eldershaw wrote:

> >> Logical partitions get renumbered when one is removed, so try /dev/hda6 as
> >> the boot partition perhaps.
> >
> >O.K. - I've booted off the debian cdrom and figured out (from the help)
> >that at the boot: prompt that you can type
> >boot: root=/dev/hda6
> >which is where the linux fs is stored. Unfourtounatley it chokes on
> >loading the swap-space:
> 
> Well your swap partition has probably moved as well.  Just add the
> letter "S" to the end of the above boot line to get it to boot in single
> user mode.  That will prevent it from trying to set up the swap.  You
> can just log in as root, fix /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf, rerun lilo,
> and boot normally.

Yeeha! I'm in like Flynn! Thanks to Craig and Robert. Cheers.

p.s. does anybody know of a site on the net that gives you a color map for
setting up the color settings on your monitor?

Greg Vickers

"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you. Then you win." - Ghandi.


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