Silly one but it happened... I was making my bootdisk - lilo doesn't seem to like my setup and did the usual dd if=/boot/vmlinuz etc followed by :- rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda2 and rdev -R /dev/fd0 1 except that it should have been /dev/hda3, consequently it crashed on next reboot big-time. Anywaty, I inserted my 7.0 bootdisk, booted my instakked setup and got back to a prompt, I then retyped the rdev commands but forgot to change disks.. The effect of this is to shag my 7.0 bootdisk I have managed to restore everything else (Ihad a spare 6.4 bootdisk) but I would like to restore my 7.0 bootdisk back to its former self I have tried to read the man page for rdev but am not sure what the correct rdev parameters should be, can anyone give me a clue ? Thanks Pete
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Pete Atkinson wrote: pa> Silly one but it happened... pa> pa> I was making my bootdisk - lilo doesn't seem to like my setup and did pa> the usual dd if=/boot/vmlinuz etc followed by :- pa> pa> rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda2 and pa> rdev -R /dev/fd0 1 pa> pa> I have tried to read the man page for rdev but am not sure what the pa> correct rdev parameters should be, can anyone give me a clue ? pa> Could always do the following which works for me, cp /boot/vmlinuz /dev/fd0 Of course, you will need to replace the vmlinuz and the path to your floppy with the correct entries. But I've had good success with the above. pa> Thanks pa> pa> Pete pa> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v7.0+ - Kernel 2.2.18 Support your local police force -- steal!!
Pete Atkinson wrote:
I was making my bootdisk - lilo doesn't seem to like my setup and did the usual dd if=/boot/vmlinuz etc followed by :-
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda2 and rdev -R /dev/fd0 1
except that it should have been /dev/hda3, consequently it crashed on next reboot big-time. Anywaty, I inserted my 7.0 bootdisk, booted my instakked setup and got back to a prompt, I then retyped the rdev commands but forgot to change disks..
The effect of this is to shag my 7.0 bootdisk
I have managed to restore everything else (Ihad a spare 6.4 bootdisk) but I would like to restore my 7.0 bootdisk back to its former self
I have tried to read the man page for rdev but am not sure what the correct rdev parameters should be, can anyone give me a clue ?
You can find the 7.0 boot disks on the CDs/DVD in /cdrom/disks (assuming your CD/DVD is mounted on /cdrom. You should be able to just dd the image over onto the floppy. Bye, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
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