On Thursday 15 April 2004 00.50, John Sowden wrote:
I have done something to my grub data file which is causing my suse 8.2 system to continuously reboot. Therefore I am trying to get it corrected using the rescue system. I rebooted with the cd, selected 'rescue' , it booted fine, now I need to mount my existing file system. It is on hda5, so I did a 'mount /dev/hda5 -t reiserfs /' the response was a wrong file system. I ran 'fdisk /dev/hda' and found that it was a standard linux fs (type 83?). tried -t linux. answer is fs not supported.
type 83 is a partition type, not a file system type. The "standard linux" filesystem (whatever that means) is ext2. But you can probably get it mounted without using -t at all. But you can't mount it on /, since that is already in use. You want to create a temporary directory with something like mkdir tmproot and then mount /dev/hda5 tmproot Then you can cd tmproot and run "chroot ." and you're in your regular system
help.
pssssssssssssst: grub does not allow password entry in graphics mode like lilo. what's so much better about grub?
grub can read the filesystem, so you don't have to reinstall it every time you change something about the kernel or initrd the way you do with lilo. grub also gives you a shell you can work with and potentially solve boot problems without having to boot to a rescue disk. I can see it becoming as powerful as Sun's OpenBoot in future, even if it's not quite there yet