[PLUG] power hit... am I screwed?
AthlonRob
AthlonRobNF at cs.com
Thu Jul 25 18:16:04 UTC 2002
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 09:56, Sandy Herring wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Richard Langis Jr. wrote:
> > What it looks like to me is that whatever boot floppy or kernel you are
> > using to boot with does NOT have the ata-100 driver (promise?)
> > installed. I've gone through the exact same issues, and what saved my
> > bacon was finding a boot floppy image with the drivers I needed.
>
> That's my guess, too. And Promise doesn't have a driver for the Ultra I can
> dd at boot time. They only have one for the FastTrack.
What about compiling a kernel for it and just using that to boot up?
>From loosely following this thread, I think you said your bootdisk
didn't support your IDE controller so you couldn't access the drive?
> > I'm not sure if the images that Jeme pointed you to have those - I
> > haven't created a 'current' set of boot floppies in a while - but I'm
> > sure the RH7.3 disks have an image you could use at the very least.
> >
> > I would try that before giving up the ghost and reinstalling with new
> > hardware.
>
> I tried it with both the boot.img from the RH7.3 distro and the mkbootdisk I
> created on my RH7.3 system (which, of course, didn't work since it's a
> different config altogether). Unless somebody has another idea, I'm SOL.
> Looks like I'll have to stop by CompUSA on the way home from work (Frye's is
> way out of my way). Then I'll have to figure out how to fsck and mount the
> original HD when I cable it up *after* installing RH7.3 on the new drive.
Well, are you able to boot from floppy and mount any of the filesystems
on the drive? The debian boot disk should be able to do that, a
Slackware 8.0 boot/root combo should be able to do that (as would an 8.1
but it's six disks for boot/root)... or Tom's mini distro disk
thingimibob that's out there should be able to do that.
>From there I wonder if you could chroot yourself into your disk and
compile yerself a new kernel (or use a [bleh!] precompiled kernel) and
maybe re-initialize Grub (or install lilo, I like lilo, although I've
seen many advantages of booting with grub) to be sure the MBR is doing
good.
That's if your kernel has gone bad. If it's a bad filesystem, then you
just try and fix it good enough to boot again (get yourself a new
kernel?)...
But then, I've never dealt with a dead filesystem before, so y'all are
probably more adept at this stuff than I. It's hard to tell what to do
when you aren't *actually there*. :-)
--
Rob
"Google is your friend"
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