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Re: once again: HELP - system crashed

Subject: Re: once again: HELP - system crashed
From: Helge Kreutzmann (kreutzm@itp.uni-hannover.de)
Date: Sat Nov 4 09:17:51 2000


Hello !
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 07:06:21PM +0200, zank wrote:
> > > Proabably the simplest thing to do is that: take your installation
> > > media and start from milo like for an installation/update. In a
> short
> > > while you will get a shell on the second console (Alt-F2) and a
> bunch
> > > of basic tools like 'mount' and 'fdisk' and few more.
> unfortunately it does NOT open the second console, only 3rd and 4th one.
> (!?)
>
> - nevertheless, i managed to boot into single user mode.
> - i cannot start network services.
> - i can't downgrade any suspected rpms in order to get the installation
> into a consistent (original) state,
> because / is mounted readonly.
>
> what should i do next? (looks pretty complicate for a newbie to fix
> something like this.)

Check if your tools are really not there, they might not be in your
path so something like
cd ../bin
or
cd ../sbin
might get you there. Once you have mount, you can remount your root
partition read write.

Regards

      Helge

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