Re: I blew it bigtime!

From: Mike Chandler (mailmanmike_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 04/06/04

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    To: David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:28:19 -0400

    On Tuesday 06 April 2004 02:47 pm, David Baron wrote:
    Thanks, I am there, now it seems I have a larger problem, I cannot install ANY
    kernel, I've tried several, they all fail with an error about /dev/fd
    doesn't exist, and initrd didn't make.
    I am LOST.
    :(

    > 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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