Dave Plater wrote:
when you are in the repair system you can press ctrl/alt/F2 to get a console and you can run fdisk -l from there. If you are happy that all of your system packages are restored you can try my method to boot from the rescue system. I am guessing your root partition is /dev/sda2 as your screen shot shows. 1) Boot into rescue system from DVD 2)mount /dev/sda2 /mnt 3)kexec -l /mnt/boot/vmlinuz --initrd=/mnt/boot/initrd --command-line=root=/dev/sda2 4)kexec -e Your kernel will now boot. Regards Dave P
Hello Dave. Many thanks for your reply. I can do what you have shown me to do. But no I'm not sure: "all of your system packages are restored" No not all packages are restored. If I try to run yast from the prompt I only get up the blue yast screen with no text but the Quit and Help. But thanks to your sugestions I now have access to the system via my lan from my other computers. Unfortunately I cannot see my 2 CD drives, but know they can be accessed as I have booted from the DVD 11.0. /etc/fstab: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JB-00J_WD-WCAM9M475425-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JB-00J_WD-WCAM9M475425-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JB-00J_WD-WCAM9M475425-part3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 -- Med venlig hilsen / Best regards Erik Jakobsen eja@urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 - http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org