[NTLUG:Discuss] Mandrake 9.0 rescue

[Greg Edwards]

falconjetflyer at netscape.net wrote:
> I had several hardware failures and ended up replacing my MB, CPU and Floppy drive.   
> I have a goofy system.  
> My Mandrake 9.0 if on hdb1 and my boot disk was a casualty of the crash.  My back up boot disk comes back unbootable.  
> How can I boot into the system.    
> I do have Mandrake 8.1 on hda5 with a good boot disk.   
> Can I use the MD 8.1 boot floppy and adjust the boot device to access MD9.0?   The kernel is different.
> Any help.
> 
> Garion
> When a server farm crashes in the forest, l fkseil slkeiisl fii jfslehwec.
> 

Do you have the 9.0 CD?  If not you can download and burn a Install CD. 
  Boot the CD and at the first prompt select F1 (IIRC) and then enter 
rescue on the command line.  You'll end up running a kernel from the CD 
that you can mount the HD partitions on.

I'm not sure I'd try and read a 9.0 partition with a 8.1 distrib.  IIRC 
the 8.1 distrib was not a 2.4.x kernel?

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