designer seven (designer_7@yahoo.com)
Wed, 7 Apr 1999 00:36:59 -0700 (PDT)
Hello,
As in my previous posts, I've managed to lock myself out of my system.
The kernel boots, but one of the processes during init stalls and
doesn't allow me to get a shell.
I've tried several things already... like overriding the init with
init=/bin/sh ... no go... someone suggested I use a debian disk since
Redhat doesn't seem to have a root-fs image for a floppy for Alpha.
This came out really awkward.. after the kernel loaded from my hard
drive, and I tried mounting the root1440.bin disk as root, I get a
kernel panic with some odd messages and finally:
Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root
according to the docs, the root1440.bin disk is a ext2 fs... which my
kernel has built in support... and which is the same fs as my hard
drive which gets mounted fine. I believe I even have fat16 support in
my kernel...
I tried mounting a redhat intel rescue.img disk.. which I know has a
ext2 fs but with intel binaries... the same thing occurs. I would
think at least I can mount the disk.. even thou it wouldn't be able to
run init off that disk or anything else.
Now I'm beginning to have doubts if even if I got a ext2 fs with alpha
binaries root floppy... will I be able to mount it? what is wrong here?
OH, and I tried booting off the Debian boot disk too... MILO returned
saying it failed to load kernel.
there has got to be a way to get single user mode some how??... damn
it!!! or mount a separate root fs.. and mount the hd so I can fix my
system...
if anyone is still awake, and has any suggestions, or would be kind
enough to build a root fs image for me to download... please, please
do... thanks.
D.
p.s.- just to be clear.. I have access to MILO no problem.. I have my
AlphaBIOS setup to give me an option to drop me into MILO.. so
anything from there that can get me r/w access to my hd would do...
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