Re: I blew it bigtime!

From: David Baron (d_baron_at_012.net.il)
Date: 04/06/04

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    To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 20:47:15 +0200

    At the knoppix boot command, type "knoppix single"
    This will put you into a root shell.
    Mount your file systems.
    chroot to the root file system.
    try to fix it -- good luck :-)

    On Tuesday 06 April 2004 07:12, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org
    wrote:
    > Hey, this oughta get a chuckle out of some of you...
    > I have Debian Sid with kernel 2.6.4, self-compiled, working fine untill...
    > I decided to recompile the kernel again, changing some stuff around,
    > building more stuff into it, and taking more stuff out...
    > when I did
    > dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.4_custom.2.0_i386.deb
    > I got an error at the end, something about couldn't make initrd image, but
    > I figured what the heck, it will still boot off the old kernel, since the
    > entries were still in /boot/grub/menu.list.
    > Wrong!
    > I can no longer boot at all, kernel-panic etc, so I am writing this while
    > booted to Knoppix.
    > I can't see how to use this as a 'recovery disk', cuz everything I try to
    > do, requires root access, and Knoppix by default has all accounts locked,
    > and no passwords, etc.
    > I was gonna try to reinstall my other kernel, but can't.
    > I am now hopelessly hosed, please advise! 

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