FEB Mtg
Cyber Source
peter at thecybersource.com
Fri Feb 14 16:42:03 EST 2003
Bring it in. Any Linux boot cd should work, but I have 8.2 as well
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 15:25, green_man wrote:
> On 20 Jan 2003 at 6:20, Robert Meyer wrote:
>
> >
> > The Mandrake boot disks provide a 'rescue' option. If you have
> > Mandrake 8.2 or later, you can stuff the install CD in the drive and
> > when it boots, hit the <F1> key to get to a prompt and type 'rescue'.
> > You will be presented with a series of options, one of which is
> > 'reinstall LILO boot loader' or some such. It will do what it says
> > and life will be good. I've used this numerous times when folks I
> > know do a windows install after bad things happen to their windows
> > partitions and it overwrites the lilo boot.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Bob
>
> It's mandrake 8.1.
> I was able to get to a root at rescue prompt on the command line, but not
> sure where to go from there.
>
> Are we on for this SUN ??
> I'll bring it in.
> Can somebody bring a Mandrake 8.2 or later boot cd ?
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