From: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
"Johnson, Richard" <rjohnson@analogic.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.5-1.358 and Fedora
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 15:52:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4162FB6E.2080103@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0410052140150.2913@dragon.hygekrogen.localhost>
Jesper Juhl wrote:
<snip>
> While I lack specific Fedora knowledge and thus can't provide exact
> details for it I'd say it should still be pretty simple to recover. On
> Slackware I'd simply boot a kernel from the install CD and tell it to
> mount the installed system on my HD, then you'll have a running system and
> can easily clean out the broken modules etc and install the original ones
> from your CD and be right back where you started in 5 min. Surely
> something similar is possible with Fedora, reinstalling from scratch (as
> he said he did) seems like massive overkill to me.
>
>
If all you're after is a resuce cd, you can use the fedora CD's for that
by typing:
linux rescue
at the boot prompt. Your root fs will be mounted under /mnt/sysimage,
and you can go in from a shell, and clean up anything you like.
Neil
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-05 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-05 18:17 Linux-2.6.5-1.358 and Fedora Johnson, Richard
2004-10-05 18:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-10-05 19:15 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-05 19:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-10-05 19:46 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-05 19:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-10-05 20:21 ` Aleksandar Milivojevic
2004-10-05 19:52 ` Neil Horman [this message]
2004-10-05 20:38 ` Johnson, Richard
2004-10-05 20:55 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-05 21:00 ` Aleksandar Milivojevic
2004-10-05 20:34 ` Johnson, Richard
2004-10-07 8:00 ` Sander
2004-10-05 21:48 ` David van Hoose
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