[NTLUG:Discuss] Mandrake 9.0 rescue

[terry]

Greg Edwards wrote:

> 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?
>
I beg to differ, I don't know exact kernel version but MDK8.1 WAS  2.4.x.

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